Pierre de Villiers from AOSIS talks about their experience in using Crossref including the Similarity Check and Cited-By services. Presented at Crossref LIVE Cape Town, 19th April 2018.

2. AOSIS: The Crossref Experience
Dr Pierre JT de Villiers
AOSIS Managing Director
April 2018

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6. DHET List – Publishers
NUMBER OF JOURNALS
28
25
11
10
9
7
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
AOSIS Unisa Press Routledge/ Taylor
& Francis
NISC Juta HMPG
n=90/277 or 33%)

7. Directory of OpenAccess Journals (DOAJ.org)
47, 57%
36, 43%
RSA Journals (n = 83)
OTHERS
AOSIS

8. AOSIS Journals
Aritcles Submitted Articles Published
55%
Rejection rate
10%
RSA output (2015)

10. • Member of Crossref since January 2009 [in 10th year]
• Services currently utilised:
– Similarity check (Crosscheck) - compare the text of
submitted manuscripts for similarity
– Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) - for current and all
back articles
– Reference linking for all current journal content
– Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) - participant
– Cited-by: knowing who cited articles
Crossref Services

11. Similarity Check (Crosscheck)
Avg. similarity
percentage 12%

12. • Maintaining research integrity
• Avoiding corrections, retractions later
• Productivity tool
Beware: Similarity reports not foolproof – content behind paywalls,
crawler blocking, not online
Advantages ForAOSIS

13. Digital ObjectIdentifiers
JournalRegistrations
• 42
• DOI Total: 24,305
BookRegistrations
• 21
• DOI Total: 109

14. • The DOI is a persistent identifier. A link that don’t break and will
always lead readers (researchers) to the content they’re looking
for
• Counting of citations for measuring impact of articles
• Link with ORCID – updating author records
Essentially, research travels beyond the journal/publishers
publication platform as everyone links their references.
Advantages ForAOSIS

15. • Research dissemination and visibility. Included DOI in
referencing schema (replaced page numbers)
• Maintain and update metadata long-term, even if content moves
to a new website.
• DOI reports – most used articles, resolving conflicts
Content is found, cited, linked to, included in assessment, and used
by other researchers.
Advantages ForAOSIS

16. Cited-by

18. A technical capability has to be maintained for:
– Solving DOI resolution conflicts
– Updating DOIs with journal platform change/move
– Implementing new DOI guidelines, such as ORCID, http vs https;
dx.doi.org vs doi.org
– Resolving OJS and Crossref communication issues
– Implementing new services, e.g. Crossmark, Funding
Crossref provides thorough technical documentation and assistance.
Challenges @AOSIS

19. Thank you
pierre@aosis.co.za