This webinar will give an overview of Crossref and it’s network of member publishers, along with information on Crossref best practices and the services it's members can make use of. Many of these services have specific relevance to OA content, and the webinar will touch on these, as well as looking into specific aspects of the Crossref metadata that can help dissemination and discoverability of OA content. Crossref will be joined by two guest speakers - Frontiers will talk about their OA workflows and how Crossref services integrate with these, and James MacGregor from PKP will show participants the Crossref Export/Registration Plugin which journals can enable to deposit DOIs with Crossref and to help them participate in other Crossref services.

1. OASPA/Crossref for Open Access
Publishers

2. What we’ll cover
• Introduction
• OASPA
• Crossref overview
• Crossref for Open Access content
• Frontiers OA workflows (Mirjam Curno, Frontiers)
• OJS/Crossref integrations (James MacGregor, PKP)
• Q&A

3. Crossref Webinar
An Introduction to OASPA
Unless otherwise specified these slides are made available by OASPA under a CC BY 4.0 License

4. Crossref Webinar
OASPA was founded in 2008
• Followed discussions between professional and
scholar publishers who were making access to
scholarly research open and had been sharing
experiences.
• Decision made to create an umbrella organisation to
represent these groups and to approach other
organisations.
Unless otherwise specified these slides are made available by OASPA under a CC BY 4.0 License

5. Crossref Webinar
10 Founding Members on October 14th
2008:
• BioMed Central
• Co-Action Publishing
• Copernicus Publications
• Public Library of Science
• SPARC Europe
• SAGE Publications
• Hindawi Publishing
Corporation
• Utrecht University Library
• JMIR Publications Inc.
• Medical Education Online
Unless otherwise specified these slides are made available by OASPA under a CC BY 4.0 License

6. Crossref Webinar
Support for OASPA has grown
steadily over the past 7 years
and it now has over 90
members
Unless otherwise specified these slides are made available by OASPA under a CC BY 4.0 License

7. Crossref Webinar
The mission of OASPA:
“to support and represent the interests of open access
journal and book publishers globally in all scientific,
technical, and scholarly disciplines”
• Exchange Information
• Set Standards
• Advocacy
• Advance Models
• Education
• Innovation
Unless otherwise specified these slides are made available by OASPA under a CC BY 4.0 License

8. Crossref Webinar
Sharing experiences and collaborating
with others is essential to make
progress
Key Projects OASPA is involved in:
• Think. Check. Submit.
• DOI Event Tracker Project (led by Crossref)
• Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly
Publishing
• Wellcome Trust Guide for Publishers on Open Access
Monographs and Book Chapters
• JATS4R
Unless otherwise specified these slides are made available by OASPA under a CC BY 4.0 License

9. Crossref Webinar
For more information and to find
out how to join OASPA
visit http://oaspa.org
Unless otherwise specified these slides are made available by OASPA under a CC BY 4.0 License

10. Photo: `R4cH3L on Flickr
About Crossref

11. 10.1098/rstl.1665.0001!

12. User clicks on
CrossRef DOI
reference link in
Journal A
Tani, N., N. Tomaru, M. Araki, AND K. Ohba. 1996. Genetic diversity
and differentiation in populations of Japanese stone pine (Pinus pumila)
in Japan. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 26: 1454–1462.
[CrossRef]
DOI
directory
returns URL
User accesses
cited article in
Journal B

13. The figures:
• 5000 publishers and societies
• 76m+ content items with DOIs
• 100 million clicks per month
• Make-up of membership is changing over
time: majority of new members are small, OA
publishers, many of whom use OJS

14. • 29 staff (UK and USA)
• 16 person Board of Directors, cross-
section of publishers
• Working groups and committees

16. Let’s talk about OA Content
• Make it discoverable via humans & via machine
• How?
• License information
• Reference deposit and distribution
• Funding data and ORCID
• And, once it’s out there:
• CrossMark
• DOI event tracker (DET)
• Crossref REST API

17. How do people know your content is OA?
• License information added to Crossref metadata
• In the form of a URL so it’s computer-readable
• OA/non-OA. Free to read?
• Different licenses for different content versions
• http://help.crossref.org/depositing-access-
indicators (.csv upload option too)

18. Reference deposit & distribution
• Make your content as discoverable as possible
• Members required to link references using DOIs,
but publishers can deposit these too
• Working on tools to extract references from PDF
files and conversion to XML so that these can be
deposited easily.
• http://help.crossref.org/depositing-references

19. Citation Information

20. Reference Distribution
• By default, references are not made available via
query results/our API etc.
• However, publishers can opt to distribute the
references they deposit with Crossref:
http://help.crossref.org/depositing-and-
distributing-references
• Email support@crossref.org

21. Participants
BioMed Central, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, International Union of Crystallography
(IUCr), MIT Press – Journals, Portland Press Ltd. Rockefeller University Press, The
Royal Society, The Company of Biologists, Public Library of Science (PLoS), Hindawi
Publishing Corporation, Geological Society of London, Nepal Journals Online (JOL),
Bangladesh Journals Online (JOL), Cancer Intelligence, Pensoft Publishers, Faculty of
1000, Ltd., Sri Lanka Journals Online (JOL), Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals,
Ubiquity Press, Ltd., Latin America Journals Online, Mongolian Journals Online, PeerJ,
Leibniz-Institute of Psychology Information (ZPID) Giftet Inc, eLife Sciences,
Copernicus GmbH, Frontiers
David Shotton, Open Citations Corpus:
https://opencitations.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/open-letter-to-publishers/

22. Publishers
Relationship with
authors submitting
manuscripts
Established
publishing and peer-
review systems
Funders
Relationship with
researchers funded by
agencies
Established award
systems and research
management
processes

23. FundRef
Registry
Publisher
Submission System
Grant Number
Funder
Production
Systems
CrossRef
Database &
Query APIs
Funders
Researchers
Institutions
Publishers

24. DOI (article)
Funding
Source
Award
Number
Linking together

25. And making available

26. And adding other context

27. And ORCIDs

28. Once it’s out
there…

29. Updates?
Nature 478, 26-28 (2011) Science publishing: The trouble with
retractions
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/478026a

30. What is CrossMark?
• A logo that identifies a publisher-maintained
copy of a piece of content
• Clicking the logo tells you
• Whether there have been any updates
• That this is the publisher-maintained copy, or
the location of that copy
• Other important publication record information

32. Publication record information:

33. DOI Event
Tracker

34. How does information spread?
• Supplemental and grey literature (e.g. data, software,
working papers)
• Orthogonal professional literature (e.g. patents, legal
documents, governmental/NGO/IGO reports, consultation
reports, professional trade literature).
• Scholarly tools (e.g. citation management systems, text &
data mining applications).
• Secondary outlets for scholarly literature (institutional &
disciplinary repositories, A&I services).
• Mainstream media (e.g. BBC, New York Times).
• Social media (e.g. Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook, Blogs,
Yo).

35. We had our board meeting yesterday, and the topic
of ALM came up. How could OASPA support this
more practically? Could a group of publishers come
together to form some kind of collaborative project
where we agree to do things in similar ways, so that
data is more comparable etc? How could that
interface with work at CrossRef?
Mark Patterson
3/25/14

38. open
comparable
audit-able
portable

39. http://events.labs.crossref.org/events/types/WikipediaCitation

40. Find out more:
http://crosstech.crossref.org/2015/09/det-poised-for-launch.html

41. Crossref REST API
• Search, filter, facet, sample CrossRef metadata
• Free to use
• Do whatever you want with the data
• Code publicly available http://github.com/CrossRef

42. With Crossref’s REST API
1. Find member ID for eLife:
http://api.crossref.org/members?query=elife
2. Ask for their licenses
http://api.crossref.org/members/4374/
works?facet=license:*&rows=0

43. CC-BY 3.0 and 4.0, a bit of CC0

44. What do people already do with
these things?
• Search services (including CrossRef’s own
Crossref Metadata Search: search.crossref.org)
• Bibliography / PDF library management tools
• Reporting on funding activities, publishing
• activities, author activities
• Ingest of scholarly metadata (OAI-PMH
• replacement) and metadata lookup
• Locating full-texts for content mining
https://github.com/CrossRef/rest-api-doc/blob/master/rest_api_tour.md

45. Thank
you!
Questions
@CrossrefOrg!
support@crossref.org!

46. CrossRef webinar
A case study on integra5ng CrossRef services
Mirjam Curno, PhD
Editorial Office Manager

47. About Fron5ers
Founded in 2007 by a group of neuroscien5sts
Based at the Swiss Federal Ins5tute of Technology in
Lausanne
Mission and Vision:
• Easy and open access to research knowledge
• Empowered communi5es responsible for publishing

48. Fron5ers in numbers
54
Journals
55K
Editors
39K
Ar5cles

49. What we have built
Collabora5ve peer review

50. What we have built
Research Topics

51. What we have built
Impact metrics

52. What we have built
Research network Loop

53. What we have built
Fron5ers for Young Minds

54. CrossRef services integrated at Fron5ers

55. CrossRef services integrated
At submission
CrossCheck

56. CrossRef services integrated
At submission
FundRef

57. CrossRef services integrated
At publica5on
DOI (references)

58. CrossRef services integrated
At post-publica5on
Impact

59. CrossRef services integrated
At post-publica5on
CrossMark

60. CrossRef services what’s next?
Text and data mining

61. OJS’ CrossRef Integra2on
James Macgregor / jmacgreg@gmail.com

62. Intro
• I work for Public Knowledge Project!
• We develop Open Journal Systems, Open Monograph Press (etc.)
• Our plaHorms are OSS, ~8,000+ acMve instances online
• They integrate with other plaHorms and services

63. Overview
• OJS/CrossRef Requirements
• Output
• Further FuncMonality
• Future Plans

64. Requirements
• Checks OJS for CrossRef-specific requirements:
• ISSN
• Publisher Name
• Public IdenMfiers (DOIs)
• Will also request CrossRef credenMals (required for automated
deposits)

65. Requirements

66. Output
• Produces the XML CrossRef needs for deposits, including:
• ArMcle metadata (Mtle, author info, abstracts, keywords, etc.)
• DOIs and resolving URLs
• License info, incl. URLs (if available)
• Author ORCID IDs
• InformaMon for CrossCheck’s plagiarism service
• … and more

67. Output
• Displays DOI on landing page
• Includes DOI in all future arMcle metadata for other services

68. Further Func2onality
• AutomaMc Deposits
• OJS will deposit DOIs on publicaMon!
• No need to download XML
• Can deposit yourself via OJS, or just let OJS do it for you
• Error Checking
• Checks for publicaMon dates, author info
• Checks for valid deposit credenMals
• Etc.
• … And More
• We are always adding!
• Always worth keeping your OJS up-to-date

69. Further Func2onality

70. Future Plans
• UI/UX review and enhancements
• Be`er error reporMng
• CrossMark integraMon
• Cited By Linking integraMon
• FundRef integraMon
• IntegraMon into DET

71. Thanks!
• James MacGregor
• h`p://pkp.sfu.ca
• jmacgreg@gmail.com