Introduction to Crossref. Presented by Vanessa Fairhurst at Crossref LIVE Tokyo, Feb 2018.

2. Agenda
10.00 - 10.35 Welcome
09.35 - 10.00 Getting started with registering content with Crossref
11.00 - 11.30 Crossref metadata - what can be collected and how it can be used - why good metadata is important
11.30 - 12.00 Break
12.00 - 12.30 JST - work with Crossref metadata and CHOR
12.30 - 13.00 New metadata developments
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 14.30 Updates from ORCID
14.30 -15.45: Introduction to Crossref services
Reference linking
Cited-by
Funding data
Crossmark
Similarity Check
15.45 - 16.15 Break
16.15 - 16.45 Crossref Event Data and other new services
16.45 - 17.15 Community initiatives and how to get involved
17.15 - 17.45 DOI usage at Kyoto University
17.45 - 18.00 Closing address

3. Crossref makes research outputs easy to find, cite, link, and
assess.
We’re a not-for-profit membership organization that exists to
make scholarly communications better. We rally the
community; tag and share metadata; run an open
infrastructure; play with technology; and make tools and
services—all to help put scholarly content in context.
It’s as simple—and as complicated—as that.

4. Our truths
• Come one, come all
• One member, one vote
• Smart alone, brilliant together
• Love metadata, love technology
• What you see, what you get
• Here today, here tomorrow

6. Governance and Committees
• Advisory Groups and Committees
• 16 member board, cross section of international
publishers
• One member, one vote, including publishers
represented by a sponsor - each of you has a vote
• Board elections each November

7. Board members
Chair - Paul Peters, Hindawi
Treasurer - Scott Delmas, ACM
Jason Wilde, AIP Publishing
Helen King, BMJ
Mark Patterson, eLIFE
Chris Shillum, Elsevier
Liz Allen, F1000
Duncan Campbell, John Wiley & Sons
Amy Brand, MIT Press
Marin Dacos, OpenEdition
Ian Bannerman, Informa UK
Graham McCann, IOP Publishing
John Shaw, SAGE
Wim van der Stelt, Springer Nature
Eleonora Dagiene, VGTU Press
Abel Packer, SciELO

8. Crossref overview
• Nearly 9,500 member organizations
• Metadata store of over 94 million scholarly content items
• A DOI is just the start - We offer a wide array of services
to ensure that scholarly research metadata is registered,
linked, and distributed.
• We preserve the metadata we receive and make it
available via our open APIs and Search.

9. Who uses Crossref?
• Publishing vendors
• Peer review systems
• Reference manager systems
• Lab & diagnostics suppliers
• Info management systems
• Educational tools
• Data analytics systems
• Literature discovery services
• Registration Agencies
• Publishers
• Funders
• Institutions
• Archives & repositories
• Research councils
• Data centres
• Professional networks
• Patent offices
• Indexing services

10. Why do publishers join Crossref?
• To help get their content discovered
• Show people where their content is located and
update that if/when the content moves
• Drive more traffic to publications
• Turn references into hyperlinks
• Find out who is using their content
• Participate in other collaborative services

11. Crossref Members and Affiliates by Year

12. New Members 2017
0
300
600
900
1200 Sponsoring
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Sponsored
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Sponsoring
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rganization
Sponsored
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(Publishers)
Libraries
62
1044
715
824

14. 94,000,000
content items

15. • Journals
• Books
• Conference proceedings
• Standards
• Technical reports
• Working Papers
• Theses and dissertations
• Components (figures, tables)
• Datasets (supplementary data)
• Databases
• Posted content (includes preprints)
• Peer Reviews

16. Databases
2%
Components
3%
Reports
1%
Standards
1%
Conference Proceedings
5%
Books
16%
Journals
72%
Registered Content

17. What are we up to?
• Outreach & marketing teams growing
• More in-person events
• Strengthening links with broader community
• Accelerating development
• Launching Ambassador Program

19. Soon
Early Content Registration
Event Data
Participation reports
Peer Review Reports
Metadata Manager

20. Thank you for
joining us today!