Ginny Hendricks is Chief Program Officer at Crossref, leading community, membership, and program/product functions, working with the board and the research community to ensure responsible and sustainable oversight of the Crossref ecosystem. Before Crossref, she ran ‘Ardent’ for a decade, consulting within scholarly communications on awareness and growth strategies, product launches, and building global communities. She instigated Metadata 20/20, co-founded Scholarly Social and FORCE11’s Upstream, and has contributed to several open infrastructure initiatives, including ROR as well as POSI. She serves as Treasurer of the DOI Foundation, represents the international community on the Board of African Journals Online (AJOL), and works to encourage more effective open metadata practices as part of the Steering Committee of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information. Ginny is a stickler for good manners, a lover of words, and when she’s not gardening, is still looking for a good shabu-shabu spot in London.
Travis Rich, Monday, Jun 8, 2026
In News ReleaseDOIsCollaborationRepositoriesPublishingInfrastructure
Cross-posted from the Knowledge Futures blog.
For many years, PubPub has made it possible for communities to assign DOIs to a range of outputs and component Pubs. Knowledge Futures and Crossref are building together to test the limits of what’s possible for high-volume, high-granularity DOI management. That means fast prototypes, real building, and learning through the process.
Dominika Tkaczyk, Thursday, Mar 19, 2026
Metadata is communication; it can tell a story about research and paint a picture for others to respond to and learn from, across the world and throughout the forthcoming generations. Metadata can feel technical with words like ‘infrastructure’ and ‘schema’, and sometimes, like tech in general, it comes with hyperbole. But metadata really is part art (storytelling and pictures) and part science (structured models and standards) with both aspects being equally important, and requiring people as well as systems. That necessary combination of human and machine involvement also makes metadata challenging.
Ginny Hendricks, Thursday, Jan 8, 2026
In FeesMember BriefingGrant Linking SystemResearch FundersResearch 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.
Ginny Hendricks, Thursday, Dec 18, 2025
In Annual ReportCollaborationCommunityFinanceSustainabilityMembershipMetadataResearch NexusStaffStrategy
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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In January 2026, our new annual membership fee tier takes effect. The new tier is US$200 for member organisations that operate on publishing revenue or expenses (whichever is higher) of up to US$1,000 annually. We announced the Board’s decision, making it possible in July, and––as you can infer from Amanda’s latest blog––this is the first such change to the annual membership fee tiers in close to 20 years!
