We wanted to welcome you to this introductory webinar, and thank you for your interest in being Crossref Ambassadors. We’re excited to move forward with this initiative which we hope will bring a lot of value to you and your communities.
So to summarise: Crossref is not just about DOIs! We are not defined by a particular service but by how we fit into the scholarly community as a whole.
All of this content has metadata that is available to search.
This metadata is used more widely than many realise from publishers, funding bodies, indexing and discovery services and educational institutions to name but a few. The uses continue to grow year on year, especially as we expand the content types and related metadata registered with Crossref.
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
All of this content has metadata that is available to search.
This metadata is used more widely than many realise from publishers, funding bodies, indexing and discovery services and educational institutions to name but a few. The uses continue to grow year on year, especially as we expand the content types and related metadata registered with Crossref.
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
All of this content has metadata that is available to search.
This metadata is used more widely than many realise from publishers, funding bodies, indexing and discovery services and educational institutions to name but a few. The uses continue to grow year on year, especially as we expand the content types and related metadata registered with Crossref.
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
Crossref is not just about DOIs! We are not defined by a particular service but by how we fit into the scholarly community as a whole.
All of this content has metadata that is available to search.
This metadata is used more widely than many realise from publishers, funding bodies, indexing and discovery services and educational institutions to name but a few. The uses continue to grow year on year, especially as we expand the content types and related metadata registered with Crossref.
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
Cited-by lets members show authors and readers what other Crossref content is citing their content. It’s a little like reference linking in reverse and lets your readers navigate from your content to the content that is citing it.
There are many online citation indexing services but what is different about Cited-by is that it lets our members display the Cited-by links on their content on their own website in any way they wish.
This benefits the readers because they can get a sense of how often the content has been cited and can easily click the links to go to the citing content. How often something is cited can also be useful information for publishers, authors, research institutions and funders. END
Number of cited by links and other fun stats: https://data.crossref.org/reports/statusReport.html
In this example you can see a Japanese paper published in Taylor and Francis’ Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology citing Swedish research from the same journal.
Publishers retrieve metadata records of publications that cite their content from the Crossref system and then display this for readers
(To participate members need to send us an email requesting to be signed up, deposit references for each of their articles’ metadata, query Crossref for a list of all DOIs citing your document, display these results on your website. Cited-by is optional but there is no fee for participating.)
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/citedby/10.1080/18811248.1999.9726230?scroll=top&needAccess=true
Funding data is really important information. This information is found in the acknowledgements of almost all papers, but that can be quite buried in full text, and isn’t particularly easy to mine or search on across publications.
So we developed a list of over 12,000 international funding bodies and we ask publishers to match the funders in the acknowledgements to their name in the registry. Or they ask authors to pick those funders from the list when they submit papers. Once the funder names are standardised they are deposited, with their unique funder ID and any associated grant numbers, and the DOI – this all gets tied together in the metadata.
And this gives us something that’s not been available until now - a cross-publisher view of publications that have resulted from grants from individual funders.
You can come along to our own funding data search, enter a funder name and see all of the publications that cite that funder. Huge benefit to the funders themselves, particularly those who who have open access mandates and want to be able to check that authors are complying.
Funders can export the information for their own internal reports and anyone can query our api to access the data. So we’ve moved from free-form acknowledgements in the full text of each article to a much bigger picture - with more transparency and accuracy, and all by depositing a bit more metadata in a simpler way.
(An increasing number of organizations and projects rely on this funding data to identify content and check compliance with funder policies.)
This is an example of a CrossMark with no updates.
The document is current, the message you will see most commonly. It displays a link to the publisher maintained version which in this case is up-to-date.
Below you can see the additional publication information such as the authors, any clinical trials linked to the article, as well as funding or license information.
Here’s another example where there are updates available and this is in yellow to show this along with a link to view the correction notice. If this was a retraction the box would show up in red and similarly include a link to the retraction notice for the paper.
Nearly 550 publishers depositing Crossmark metadata
For over 6.3m DOIs
Around 1% are updates (so even more important that they’re flagged!)
Over 2,000 of the updates are retractions
(Number of publishers and no of DOIs found using this API query: http://api.crossref.org/works?filter=has-update-policy%3Atrue&rows=0&facet=publisher-name%3A%2A
Updates and update type: http://api.crossref.org/works?filter=is-update:true&facet=update-type:*&rows=0)
Similarly Check is a service that helps editors prevent plagiarism. To do this, our members are given access to Turnitin powerful text comparison tool, iThenticate, so that they can compare their own manuscripts against a large database of full-text academic content.
While there are several plagiarism screening tools available, using iThenticate as a Similarity Check member is unique as it creates a symbiotic relationship between content-owners and Turnitin. Similarity Check members enjoy cost-effective use of iThenticate because they contribute their own published content into Turnitin’s database of full-text literature.
I’ll be talking in more depth about this service in the next session so won’t go into how it works just now.
I’ll now just cover a couple of the new developments we have at Crossref to be launched later this year.
I’ll now just cover a couple of the new developments we have at Crossref to be launched later this year.
Event Data is a new service that we launched in Beta earlier this year. It a record of each time we find a link to a piece of research online, outside of publisher platforms. We are not looking for citations on publisher sites but when research is communicated in other, increasingly diverse ways online. This is becoming increasingly important as yesterday’s session on communicating science effectively beyond the journal article highlighted.
Imagine these dots are articles, tweets, blog posts, data sets, wikipedia pages and more that exist out there online. In the scholarly community, we know that sometimes these things are all connected. They have some kind of relationship with each other. For example, a Tweet includes a link to an article, or a blog post cites an article, or a Crossref DOI contains a link in it’s metadata to another DOI, perhaps one from DataCite for example.
Well, these relationships are what we are collecting in Event Data. Each red arrow you see here represents a relationship between two things, and we call each of these individual relationships an Event. So Event Data is a record of the relationships, or the links, to and between research. END
Here are some of the places we’re were gathering data from, at this point: Twitter, Wikipedia, Blogs, Reddit and the Web. We are also able to capture the links between datasets and content items as they are added into the metadata deposited with DataCite and Crossref.
Luckily, once a publisher registers content with us, we have a way of keeping track of it. Using an item’s Crossref DOI, we are able to find out when it has been saved, shared, liked, referenced or commented in all these places, and we will continue to look for new places where things like articles and datasets are being referenced. So this will grow over time.
How do we get the data? It’s a pipeline. Data comes from sources likes the ones I mentioned, we process it and curate Events based on a schema and then provide those Events and all the information about how we processed the data to anyone via API. The end-user Event Data service interface is an API, rather than a human user interface, so Event Data is best suitable for machine-use.
So you might be thinking that Event Data sound like it might be another type of altmetrics tool. Well, it’s not. We are not making metrics. We don’t aggregate the information in any way, we don’t create a score because all these things require us to interpret the data in some way. And that’s not what we’re trying to do. What we want to provide is the raw, underlying data that represents the links we observe on the web, and then make that all that data as well as all the information about how we processed it, available to everyone.
Anyone can then use the data for their own needs: funders tracking dissemination and usage of the research they funded, to build tools such as reading recommendations, or publishers and other service providers to feed into their metric led analysis or to build visualisations or dashboards.
(We believe in the principles of Open Data, so everything we provide in our service will tagged with a license that is conformant with the principles laid out in the Open Definition. Currently we have data that is either CC0 or that we can made available without restriction but in the future, we will also accept data from any source that can provide it under a conformant licence. And of course, we do also have terms of use.) - https://www.eventdata.crossref.org/guide/index.html
This is:
A dashboard that displays how much metadata a member has registered with usAll metadata that a member has registered will be displayed
The reports will cover all content types (although journals only in the initial release)Useful for members, us (Crossref staff) and the public
Many members are not aware of what they register with Crossref, whether this is because of staff changes, transfer of journals or that some of our larger members outsource metadata registration with Crossref to third parties.
For clarity and help, gives information on how they can improve their record with Crossref. Also provides a good benchmark to see what others are doing and registering with us.
(Say a bit about filters, icons etc. )
An update to the existing deposit form which has been around for a long time and no longer fulfils it’s role with our extended metadata and content registration.
The metadata deposit tool will simplify the process of register articles and the associated metadata. It will save changes as you go and make it easier to deposit and update content as well as providing a history of deposits with Crossref. Simple, clear to understand fields. Especially useful for smaller publishers who do not use XML to deposit metadata with us.
I’ll now just cover a couple of the new developments we have at Crossref to be launched later this year.
I know this has been a bit of a lightening overview of Crossref and our services, so for more information please refer to our services pages, or view our webinar recordings. You can also read our blog and we have created short 2 min service videos which are currently available in 7 languages (including mandarin, Japanese and Korean) with more coming in the near future.
I know this has been a bit of a lightening overview of Crossref and our services, so for more information please refer to our services pages, or view our webinar recordings. You can also read our blog and we have created short 2 min service videos which are currently available in 7 languages (including mandarin, Japanese and Korean) with more coming in the near future.
I know this has been a bit of a lightening overview of Crossref and our services, so for more information please refer to our services pages, or view our webinar recordings. You can also read our blog and we have created short 2 min service videos which are currently available in 7 languages (including mandarin, Japanese and Korean) with more coming in the near future.
I know this has been a bit of a lightening overview of Crossref and our services, so for more information please refer to our services pages, or view our webinar recordings. You can also read our blog and we have created short 2 min service videos which are currently available in 7 languages (including mandarin, Japanese and Korean) with more coming in the near future.
I know this has been a bit of a lightening overview of Crossref and our services, so for more information please refer to our services pages, or view our webinar recordings. You can also read our blog and we have created short 2 min service videos which are currently available in 7 languages (including mandarin, Japanese and Korean) with more coming in the near future.
Crossref is not just about DOIs! We are not defined by a particular service but by how we fit into the scholarly community as a whole.