Presented by Vanessa Fairhurst, Paul Davis and Rachael Lammey on March 3rd 2021. The webinar covers how to create and correctly display a DOI, the importance of metadata and the various tools for content registration including the web deposit form, Metadata Manager and OJS plug-ins.

1. Content
registration at
Crossref

2. Vanessa Fairhurst
Community Outreach Manager
Paul Davis
Technical Support Specialist
Rachael Lammey
Head of Special Programs

3. Crossref makes research outputs easy to find, cite,
link, assess, and reuse.
We’re a not-for-profit membership organization
that exists to make scholarly communications
better.
Mission

4. Crossref overview
• Over 18,000 member and affiliated organizations - nearly
2,000 from Indonesia
• Metadata store of over 122 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.

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

6. 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

7. More than just
DOIs

8. Your prefix
• One prefix may be used for all content
• New titles may be added at any time
• No limit to the number of DOIs created, also no
minimum number is required.
10.4444
10.55555

9. Persistent identifiers
https://doi.org/10.1006/jmbi.1995.0238
• The DOI directory: makes the DOI actionable on the web
• Prefix: assigned by Crossref
• Suffix: assigned by the publisher
Total DOI = routes through the DOI resolver to point to the registered URL

10. DOI suffix
• consistent
• simple
• short
More details: https://support.crossref.org/hc/en-us/articles/214669823

11. Crossref DOI display guidelines
• Always be displayed as a full URL link
• An example of the best practice in displaying a Crossref DOI link is:
https://doi.org/10.1629/22161
• Old format was http://dx.doi.org/

12. Your landing page
• A full bibliographic citation so that the user can verify they have been
delivered to the correct item
• The DOI displayed as a URL, per display guidelines
• A way to access full text: access to full text is completely controlled
by the publisher but the landing page must be accessible to
everyone.

13. What can I register?
Journals
Books
Book chapters
Conference proceedings
Datasets
Dissertations
Reports
Standards
Posted content (preprints)
Peer reviews
Grants
… and more

14. metadata
author names, affiliations, article titles, ISSN, ISBN, pages,
issue #, volume #s, dates, identifiers

15. more metadata
reference lists, funding data, ORCIDs, license data, clinical trial numbers,
errata, retractions, updates and more through our Crossmark service,
JATS-formatted abstracts, relationships between items…

16. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000963
https://api.crossref.org/works/10.1371/journal.pbio.300096
3

18. Important to maintain your registered content
• It’s important to know how to work with the content
you register with Crossref, so that readers can
always find, and use the content you publish
https://thenounproject.com/term/link/18141/ Eric Vullings CC-0:
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

19. Ways to register content
The manual web deposit form (https://apps.crossref.org/webdeposit)
OJS Crossref plugin
Metadata Manager
Upload XML file (https://doi.crossref.org)

20. Demos

21. Web Deposit Form Demo

22. Metadata Manager Demo

23. Useful Links
● Web Deposit Form: https://www.crossref.org/webDeposit/
● Metadata Manager: https://www.crossref.org/metadatamanager/
● Web Deposit Form help in Education Docs:
https://www.crossref.org/education/member-setup/web-deposit-
form/#00491
● Metadata Manager Help Pages:
https://www.crossref.org/help/metadata-manager/

24. OJS/Crossref integrations
• automatic DOI deposit to Crossref on article publication (2.4.5);
• inclusion of other article metadata in the Crossref deposit, including author ORCID
iDs; article abstracts; and more (OJS 2.4.5);
• inclusion of FundRef funding data (OJS 3.1.2-1);
• inclusion of references (OJS 3.1.2-1);
• improved use of Crossref API (OJS 3.1.2-1);
• support for Similarity Check service;
• support for reference linking and submission (OJS 3.1.2-x)
• support for Crossref Funder registry (OJS 3.1.2-x)
• support publications/versioning for DOIs (OJS 3.2)
https://docs.pkp.sfu.ca/crossref-ojs-manual/en/

27. Please note...
The plugin will deposit DOIs on publication, but your DOIs
will still take time to be processed. It is not immediate.
The plugin does not automatically update DOIs if metadata
changes. That has to be done manually.
If a DOI deposit has failed, you can click on the failure link
for a report
more info at: PKP's Community forum https://forum.pkp.sfu.ca/ and
PKP documentation https://docs.pkp.sfu.ca

28. Where can I find out more?
● Community forum: https://community.crossref.org/
● Documentation: https://www.crossref.org/education/
● Email our support, member, and billing teams
support@crossref.org, member@crossref.org
billing@crossref.org
● Webinars: https://www.crossref.org/webinars/

29. Staying up-to-date
Twitter: @crossrefOrg and @crossrefsupport
What are we thinking about: blog.crossref.org
Get in touch: feedback@crossref.org

30. Thank you!
Questions?