This document discusses CrossRef and the services it provides to scholarly publishers and journals. CrossRef is a not-for-profit organization that provides Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) and linking services to over 5,000 member publications. It summarizes CrossRef's reference linking, metadata, and plagiarism checking services. It also provides information for African journals on how to get CrossRef DOIs and participate in CrossRef programs and services.

1. CrossRef DOIs for
African Partner
Journals
Carol Anne Meyer
Marketing and Business
Development
CrossRef
African Journal Partnership Program
San Antonio, TX
6 May 2014

2. A not-for-profit trade association of
global scholarly publishers

3. Improving scholarly
communication through
community collaboration
6-Word Mission

4. We have two offices:
Lynnfield, MA and Oxford, UK

5. Linking
Reference Linking Cited-by Linking
Discovery and Delivery
CrossRef Metadata Services Bibliographic Management
CrossRef Metadata Search Document Delivery
Multiple Resolution Link Resolvers
CrossRef APIs
Evaluating
CrossCheck Article Level Metrics
CrossMark PreScore
FundRef
Collaborating
Linked Data Text and Data Mining
FundRef NISO OA Indicator
Threaded Publications Journal Article Tag Set (JATS)
Enables
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6. CrossRef Has 1950 Members,
Representing 4627 Publishers

7. 5
Members Come from 81 Countries

8. Member Publishers
in Africa = 19
• Academic Journals
• Agial Publishing House
• AOSIS Open Journals
• Ashdin Publishing
• Biomath Forum
• Clinics Cardive Publishing
• Health and Medical Publishing
Group
• Hindawi Publishing
Corporation
• Infomesr
• International Research
Journals
• Mediterranean Journal of
Chemistry
• Michael Joanna Publications
• Pan African Medical Journal
• Science Journal Publications
• Stellenbosch University
• The American University in
Cairo Press
• University of the Western
Cape Library Service
• Wilolud Journals
• World Agroforestry Centre

9. • African Journals Online (AJOL)
• BioOne
• International Network for the Availability of
Scientific Publications (INASP)
• Open Access Scholarly Publishers
Association (OASPA)
Sponsors

17. We generate more than a billion
annual “clicks” to our member
publishers’ sites
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275,000,000
550,000,000
825,000,000
1,100,000,000
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

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Member Obligations
•Outbound reference linking
•Deposit all current journal articles
•Resolve CrossRef DOI conflicts
•Update metadata and especially URLs
•Do not publicize CrossRef DOIs until links
are live
•Make plans for long term archiving

22. How can AJPP
Journals get
CrossRef DOIs?
• Through sponsors like AJOL (uses
PKP/OJS)
• Through ScholarOne
• Through Web Deposit Form

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non-XML alternatives: Web deposit form
http://www.crossref.org/webDeposit/
•Manual DOI
registration,
for smaller
publishers
•System
builds XML
deposit file

24. • What if you have your journal on
–Your own site
–AJOL
–BioLine
????

25. One Article
One DOI!

26. Multiple Resolution

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CrossRef implementation
•Deposit DOIs and metadata to enable
inbound linking
–As soon as content is registered in CrossRef, it
becomes visible for linking by other participants
•Create outbound links from references by
querying the CrossRef metadata database
–Adds value by improving user experience

29. Photo by Joi Ito

30. Simple-Text Query
http://www.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery/
•Free, non-XML alternative for
outbound reference linking
•A custom version of Inera’s
eXtyles® refXpress
•Parses unstructured references
into valid XML
•Returns matching DOIs for
those references

33. Now we have 90 affiliates and 2045 libraries
Our Community Includes
Affiliates and Libraries

34. Library Affiliates
in Africa = 21
• Kenya Medical Research
Institute (KEMRI)
• Maina Soko Military Hospital
Library
• Muhimbili University College of
Health Sciences
• Nelson Mandela Metropolitian
University
• North-West University
• Rhodes University
• SEALS Library Consortium
• South East Academic Libraries
System
• St. Thomas Aquinas' Major
Seminary (STAMS)
• Strathmore Research and
• UKZN Libraries
• Unisa
• Universidade Eduardo
Mondlane
• University of Capetown
• University of Fort Hare Library
• University of Johannesburg
Library
• University of Livingstonia
Library
• University of Port Elizabeth
• University of Pretoria,
Department of Library Sciences
• University of the Western Cape
• University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg

35. 83 Non-Publisher Affiliates
–query the CrossRef system for DOIs and metadata
–get bulk updates of metadata
–act on behalf of members
Query, 48
Metadata
Services,
20
Service
Providers
8
Sponsors
7

36. CrossRef Cited-By Linking
Who’s Citing You?
Discover how your
publications are being
cited and incorporate
DOI links to the citing
content into your
online publication.

37. Powered by iThenticate

38. Technology
Est. 1996
8,500 schools,
colleges & universities
worldwide

41. Chinese
(simplified and
traditional)
Japanese
Thai
Korean
Catalan
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Norwegian
(Bokmal,
Nynorsk)
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Serbian
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish
Swedish
Arabic
Greek
Hebrew
Farsi
Russian
Turkish
Languages
Supported

42. Deterrence Factor

43. Sponsors can provide
CrossCheck Plagiarism
Screening for AJPP Journals
• Sponsor will pay discounted combined
annual fee
• BUT, we have to talk with iParadigms
about fee waivers for per-manuscript
checking fees
• 75 cents per manuscript for fewer than
2000 documents
http://www.crossref.org/02publishers/20pub_fees.html#crosscheck

44. But, remember the CrossRef
Rules
• You have to be assigning CrossRef
DOIs before you can participate in any
optional services like CrossRef

45. In Summary
• CrossRef provides infrastructure to
enable publishers to enhance their
content and services
• CrossRef services drive traffic to
publishers content

46. • CrossRef services will enable
publishers to highlight the value they
add to content
• CrossRef services will give researchers
useful tools to make decisions about
content

47. Find out more...
Webinars
– Introduction to CrossRef
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRqr4D-
wflc&noredirect=1Technical:
– Tools for Small Publishers
http://www.slideshare.net/CrossRef/barcelona-2014-crossref-tools-
for-small-publishers
Web Pages
–CrossRef Cited-by Linking
http://www.crossref.org/citedby.html
–CrossCheck Plagiarism Screening
http://www.crossref.org./CrossCheck

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49. Any Questions?

50. Carol Anne Meyer
cmeyer@crossref.org
http://www.crossref.org
twitter: @CrossRefNews
facebook: http://facebook.com/CrossRef