An introduction to Crossref, our services and plans for 2018 for new Crossref Ambassadors.

1. Welcome &
thank you!

2. This is what we’ll hope to cover today:
• Welcome & thank yous
• Update on Ambassador program
• Introducing Crossref (history, mission, members)
• Crossref focus for 2018
• Crossref services
• What’s coming up
• Brand guidelines & intro to our comms lead
• FAQs & getting help
• Thank you again!

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.

5. 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. 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.

7. 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

8. Crossref content types
• 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

10. • Australia - Melroy Almeida, Australian Access Federation
• Brazil - Edilson Demasio, University of Maringá-UEM
• Colombia - Arley Soto, Biteca
• Dubai - Mohamad Mostafa, Knowledge E
• Indonesia - Mochammad Tanzil Multazam & Muhamad Ratodi,
Relawan Journal Indonesia
• Korea - Jae Hwa Chang, infoLumi
• Russia - Maxim Mitrofanov, NEICON
• Singapore - Woei Fuh, iGroup
• USA - Lauren Lissaris, JSTOR
Who are our ambassadors? (So far)

11. What is Crossref focusing on in 2018?
• Strengthening links with broader community
• Collaborating & partnering with others
• Improving metadata
• Simplifying & enriching our services
• Accelerating development

12. Crossref Services

13. Reference Linking

14. Crossref can see over
723,810,077 Cited-by
links
Figuring out who has cited
your content can be difficult;
Cited-by provides a way to
find these citations and
display the results.

16. Funding Data
We collect and disseminate
metadata that helps funders track
the outputs of funded research. We
also have an advisory group of
funders that is helping us re-
articulate and develop services for
this audience

17. Funding Data
Standardisation of funder names using the Funder Registry
+
Publisher deposit of funding metadata
=
Large-scale analysis and reporting to funders

18. Crossmark
• An embedded button for HTML and PDF that, when
clicked, shows the researcher publication information
that a publisher chooses to include
• A great way to show users extra or updated information
about the content they’re viewing so that they can trust it
• The information stays with the article and can be
accessed even away from the publisher site
• Machine-readable metadata available via the Crossref
REST API

20. Similarity Check
Our Similarity Check service offers publishers with a way to actively
engage in efforts to prevent plagiarism.
Members are provided with access to Turnitin’s powerful text
comparison tool, iThenticate. This allows them to compare their own
documents against the largest comparison database of scientific,
technical and medical content in the world.
Similarity Check members contribute their own published content
into iThenticate’s database of full-text literature.

21. How it works
• Upload a document to iThenticate
• A similarity report is produced
• Compare side-by-side
• Editor makes a decision about
whether the similarity detected is
legitimate or if further investigation is
required
• When members publish new content,
they provide a link to their full-text
which Turnitin use to index the item
and add it into their database

22. More information
• Refer to our services pages
• View our blog with links to our short service videos
currently available in 7 languages:
• View our webinar recordings

23. New Developments

24. Event Data provides a unique record of the
web activity related to individual scholarly
content items.

25. Article
Blog
Tweet
Wikipedia page
Dataset

26. The Crossref Event Data Pipeline

27. Use the data to…
Funders can use Event Data to isolate and track the dissemination and usage of the
research they funded
Build a reading recommendation tool for researchers by using Event Data to analyse
co-citations in Wikipedia
Publishers can undertake metric-lead analysis to help drive business needs
Notify an organization that their research is trending
Researchers can analyze data from blogs and social media to help with preprint
discoverability and impact analysis
Publishing service providers can feed Event Data in their usage or altmetrics
dashboards or visualisations

28. Tools to help:
Metadata Manager
(coming soon)

29. Presenter Name
Presenter Title
@twittername

30. Tools to help:
Participation Reports
(coming soon)

33. Collaboration with OJS
Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a journal management and publishing system that has
been developed by the Public Knowledge Project through its federally funded efforts to
expand and improve access to research.
Many Crossref members use OJS to register content with us. We’ve worked with them
to build a specific plug-in to do so, and more functionality will be added to it over time
to support reference deposit and linking, and the registration of funding data.
How can I find out more?
• PKP host information about configuring OJS for content registration: Crossref
Export/Registration Plugin (OJS 2.4.8+)

34. Community at CrossrefCommunity at Crossref

35. Other useful links & contacts
• Brand guidelines: https://www.crossref.org/brand/
• Marketing & Comms: https://www.crossref.org/
people/christine-cormack-wood/

36. https://support.crossref.org/hc/en-us/requests/new
• Help members register and
maintain their metadata records
• Help everyone else discover and
use metadata records
• 1/3 of all support tickets are related
to metadata quality concerns
• FAQs: https://www.crossref.org/
faqs/
Product Support

37. Thank you
again!