During this webinar we’ll take you on a tour of our Participation Reports, which give Crossref members and the wider scholarly community a clear, visual snapshot of the metadata that each one of our members is registering with Crossref.
Registering richer metadata makes your content more useful and more discoverable to researchers and the wider scholarly community. This webinar was held on 8th December 2020.
2. Participation Reports webinar:
today’s agenda
● Zoom orientation
● Introductions
● Background on Participation Reports
● Walk through an example Participation Report
● Workshop: take a look at your own participation report and
ask us questions.
6. Background: What are Participation
Reports?
● Freely available, online reports
● One report for each member and anyone can view them.
● 10 key metadata elements, and what % of each members
DOIs contain those elements
● Really visual way to see how complete the metadata is for
each member.
7. Background: why is this important?
● When you register content with Crossref, you provide
metadata about your content
● Thousands of organizations make use of our free APIs to
search, harvest and distribute this metadata
● The more complete the metadata, the more discoverable
your content is.
9. Background: how you might use
Participation Reports
1. Easily view what metadata you are actually registering with
Crossref - not always obvious
2. See how you measure up to other members
3. Identify gaps to fill and update your metadata to fill the
gaps
4. Track your progress
14. Next steps
● Spend more time looking into your Participation Reports
● Speak to any partners about gaps (your sponsors, your
platform providers)
● Update existing DOIs with missing metadata
15. Get help
● Visit our Community Forum community.crossref.org
● Check out our documentation
https://www.crossref.org/education
● Contact our support team on support@crossref.org
Notas del editor
We’ll be starting soon.
Hello and welcome to the Crossref Participation Reports webinar.
We have an hour set aside for this session and we’re going to split it between us giving you some information, and you taking a look at your own Participation Report and asking us any questions you may have.
We’ll start with a bit of orientation of zoom, so you know how you can participate, and then we’ll properly introduce the Crossref staff on this call.
I’ll then move on to giving you some background on Participation Reports - what they are, and why they’re important.
I’ll then walk you through a typical Participation Report, pointing out important elements as we go.
And then finally, we’ll open the floor to you - please take a look at your own Participation Report, and ask us any questions you may have - maybe a reminder of what a particular section means, or how you can increase the percentage.
To start with, everyone will be muted. If you want to ask a question, you have a few options.
In your zoom application, you should see the following images at the bottom of your screen.
If you would like to ask a question verbally, just click on the “raise hand” button. We’ll then be able to un-mute you, and you can ask your question.
If you’d prefer to type your question, you can do this by clicking the “Q&A” button.
I’m Amanda Bartell, and I head up the Member Experience team here at Crossref. I’m joined today by Paul Davis, one of our technical support specialists, and Sally Jennings, our member support specialist. They will be on hand to help answer your questions in the Q&A as we go along.
Easily view what metadata you are actually registering with Crossref - not always obvious
Sometimes, not all the metadata that you are collecting makes it through to Crossref, particularly if you’re working with a third party.
See how you measure up to other members
Identify gaps and update your metadata to fill the gaps
Don’t forget, while there’s a charge to initially register your content, any subsequent updates to the metadata of existing DOIs is free of charge.
Track your progress
It takes between 24 - 48 hours for updates you make to reflect on Participation Reports.
Correct - no errors or typos
Complete - as many fields as you can provide. For example, don’t just provide the first author, provide all 10. Ask your authors for their ORCID IDs.
Up to date -
Correct - no errors or typos
Complete - as many fields as you can provide. For example, don’t just provide the first author, provide all 10. Ask your authors for their ORCID IDs.
Up to date -
Current content screen shot of member in case live demo doesn’t work or you can use the screenshot to do the demo - you can also select a different member if you like.