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Susan Collins
2026 January 14

The GEM program - Year Three and program expansion for 2026

As Crossref membership continues to grow, finding ways to help organisations participate is an important part of our mission. Although Crossref membership is open to all organisations that produce scholarly and professional materials, cost and technical challenges can be barriers to joining for many.

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Ginny Hendricks
2026 January 08

Reduction of Grant DOI registration fees: a boost for the Research Nexus

We are pleased to announce that—effective 1st January 2026—we have made two changes to grant record registration fees that aim to accelerate adoption of Crossref’s Grant Linking System (GLS) and provide a two-year window of opportunity to increase the number and availability of open persistent grant identifiers and boost the matching of relationships with research objects.

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Patricia Feeney
2026 January 06

The best way of acknowledging research funding in the metadata: Crossref Grant ID

We are very pleased to kick off the New Year with another important schema update and the news that a Grant DOI field is now supported for all record types. This means that Crossref members can explicitly include the Crossref Grant IDs as part of their DOI metadata records for publications and any other output type, accurately linking research outputs to the funding that made it possible, all through metadata. We hope that our members will leverage this to respond to recent calls for stronger funding transparency and best practices for reporting funding sources in research outputs. 

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Ginny Hendricks
2025 December 18

Highlights of a very busy year: our 2025 annual report

As we finish celebrating our 25th anniversary, we can look back on a truly transformational year, defined by the successful delivery of several long-planned, foundational projects—as well as updates to our teams, services, and fees—that position Crossref for success over the next quarter century as essential open scholarly infrastructure. In our update at the end of 2024, we highlighted that we had restructured our leadership team and paused some projects. The changes made in 2024 positioned us for a year of getting things done in 2025. We launched cross-functional programs, modernised our systems, strengthened connections with our growing global community, and streamlined a bunch of technical and business operations while continuing to grow our staff, members, content, relationships, and community connections.

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Amber Osman

Amber Osman

Biography

Co-founder XploreOpen, Crossref Ambassador in Pakistan. Amber works at the intersection of open science, scholarly communication, and research infrastructure, driving initiatives that advance openness, transparency, and equity worldwide. She contributes to global efforts through DOAJ, COPE, Creative Commons, Crossref, PREreview, ORCID, DataCite, UNESCO, World Bank, and more. As co-founder of XploreOpen, she champions systems that bridge innovation, integrity, and accessibility across communities.