Crossref is a not-for-profit organization with over 10,000 member organizations that registers, links, and distributes metadata for scholarly research outputs. It maintains a database of over 99 million content items, including journals, books, conference proceedings, and other materials. Crossref provides services to help publishers, reference managers, and other groups discover, cite, and assess scholarly research. Members join Crossref to help discover and track where their content is located online and to participate in collaborative initiatives around metadata and technology.

1. An Introduction to Crossref: History, Mission, and Members

2. Agenda
• Introduction to Crossref
• Content registration - various methods
• Metadata developments
• Additional Crossref services
• Uses of Crossref metadata
• Community initiatives

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 members
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
• Over 10,000 member organizations
• Metadata store of over 99 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
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12. Our Member Types

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15. >99,000,000
content items

16. • 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

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

18. What are we up to?
• More in-person events
• Strengthening links with broader community
• Accelerating development
• Launching Ambassador Program

20. Soon
Pending Publications
Event Data
Metadata Manager

21. Thank you for
joining us today!