4. Our truths
• Smart alone, brilliant together
• If you publish, you’re a publisher
• One member, one vote
• Love metadata, love technology
• Politic, not political
• Here today, here tomorrow
5. Strategic .org
• Not for profit membership organization - majority of
members non-profit
• Founded for strategic reasons: services best
achieved collaboratively
• Wide participation - publishers, libraries, sponsors,
affiliates, researchers, all use our services
• Best practices and obligations - collective benefit
6. Strategic .org
• An organizational foundation for shared infrastructure
and services - no bilateral agreements for reference
linking, Similarity Check, R&D
• Technical infrastructure - metadata collection and
delivery, persistent links, link content and be linked to
• Powerful NETWORK
7. Governance and Committees
• We are governed, and work to benefit, our members
and the wider scholarly community
• 16 member board, cross section of international
publishers
• One member, one vote, including publishers
represented by a sponsor - each of you has a vote
• Board elections each November
• Advisory and Working Groups and Committees
8. 2017 Election
• Nominating Committee - call for expressions of interest in
serving on the board
• 25 submissions reviewed
• 9 candidates on slate for 6 seats up for election
• https://www.crossref.org/board-and-governance/elections/
9. 2017 Slate
• American Institute of Physics, Jason Wilde, USA
• F1000 Research, Liz Allen, UK
• IEEE, Gerry Grenier, USA
• IET, Vincent Cassidy, UK
• MIT Press, Amy Brand, USA
• OpenEdition, Marin Dacos, France
• SciELO, Abel Packer, Brazil
• SPIE, Eric Pepper, USA
• Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Press (VGTU Press),
Eleonora Dagiene, Lithuania
10. Crossref overview - global infrastructure
• 8,500 members
• Metadata store of over 91 million scholarly content items
• Persistent citation linking
• Funder identifiers
• Report and display corrections & retractions
• Check manuscripts for similarities
• Data about content activity e.g. social, dataset links
• Open Metadata API & Search
11. Who uses Crossref? Global Community
• Publishing vendors
• Peer review systems
• Reference manager systems
• Lab & diagnostics suppliers
• Info management systems
• Educational tools
• Data analytics systems
• Literature discovery services
• Registration Agencies
• Funders
• Institutions
• Archives & repositories
• Research councils
• Data centres
• Professional networks
• Patent offices
• Indexing services
18. Critical Uncertainties
Scholarly Communication Landscape Machine Learning and AI
Rise of Pre-print, New Content Sources Impact of Open
Tracking and Privacy Source of Prestige and Recognition
Cybersecurity Quality and Accuracy of Content
Publisher Sustainability Rise of the Citizen Scientist
Policy and Regulation Financing of Scholarly Communication
19. Core Strategies
• Expanding constituency and services
• funders, small publishers, new service providers,
researchers, citizen science
• Strategic collaboration and partnering
• work with other orgs on identifiers, metadata,
relationships, using existing infrastructure
• Technical innovation and applying new technology
• metadata extractions, machine learning/AI
20. Enabling Strategies
• Radically simplifying our services
• easy access for less technical, automated, better UI
• Tracking provenance and relationships with metadata
• relationships/connections expressed in metadata
• Quality control and validation of metadata
• education, workflow, reduce costs, automation
• Implementing Open Source across scholarly communication
• workflow tools, shared infrastructure
21. What else are we up to?
• More in-person events
• Strengthening links with broader community
• Accelerating development
• Launched new website
• Outreach & marketing teams established and
growing
25. Metadata enables connections
How research and infrastructure is changing
Social challenges in the scholarly community
Who is using your metadata and what are they doing with it?
30. Board members
Chair - Bernard Rous, ACM
Treasurer - Gerry Grenier, IEEE
Jason Wilde, AIP Publishing
Jasper Simons, APA
Helen King, BMJ
Mark Patterson, eLIFE
Chris Shillum, Elsevier
Paul Peters, Hindawi
Ian Banerman, Informa UK
James Walker, IOP Publishing
John Shaw, SAGE
Wim van der Stelt, Springer Nature
Eleonora Dagiene, VGTU Press
Eric Merkel-Sobotta, Walter de Gruyter
Peter Marney, John Wiley & Sons
Helen Zhang, Zhejiang University Press
Editor's Notes
thank you for letting us come and speak with you. This is a great o opportunity to learn about your needs as well as update you on what we have been doing.
This is a new thing we’re trying - give us feedback
Tell us if we’re slow/fast
Collaboration is at the core of everything we do. Our focus is on things that are best achieved by working together. We involve the community through active working groups and committees.
We do R&D to support and expand the shared infrastructure we run for the scholarly community. Building on the metadata we collect, we use standard web technologies and create open source tools and services to help our members solve problems and meet best publishing practice.
Our broad and inclusive community may have different views, but when it comes to law and policy, Crossref remains impartial.
We are obsessed with persistence - of links, of our technology, and of the organization. Membership and service fees cover our costs, and our surplus means we can do new things and sustain the community infrastructure for the long term.
12 founding pubs efficient journal reference linking system in the past 16 y,to over 7k members and affiliated orgs
30 staff, growing each year
NOT a vendor
12 founding pubs efficient journal reference linking system in the past 16 y,to over 7k members and affiliated orgs
30 staff, growing each year
NOT a vendor
Non-proft, commercial, large, all, Europe, Asia, US
we send out voting information in September of each year
Advisory and Working Groups. become involved. Groups on services and other interests, such as book publishing, standards, etc.
Really important that you exercise your right to vote.
The largest group of Crossref members is publishers come in all shapes and sizes - commercial, society, gov’t, uni. If you publish scholarly content, you are a publisher.
Publisher members includes Rep members, as the ABEC pubs are. Each of you has a vote. You help to decide our board members at our election each November.
We have services that allow our members to enhance their publication record
Standard way to report funding sources for scholarly research
Our Crossmark service provides a way for publishers to report and display….this allows researchers to know they have current and accurate sources
Sim Check
But a lot of others use us as well. - academic, gov’t,
And we continue to grow each year
so all these members are registering their content with us.
and what are these? next slide
largest type is journals, books fastest growing content type
and our newest type, posted content
rebranded - clearer message to members
to engage with our members
new Website, easier to navigate.
Plans to translate, technology is set for it. Phase 2 will accommodate multiple languages in the site search, multi lingual support has not been forgotten
16 member board, commercial and non, open access, and subscription, US, Asia, UK, Europe, Middle East