Introduces the idea of Digital Object Identifiers for scholarly content and the ways that organizations other than publishers can interact with the CrossRef system and take advantage of CrossRef metadata. This webinar was held on May 12, 2014.

1. Carol Anne Meyer
Business Development &
Marketing
12 May 2014
CrossRef for Affiliates

2. Outline
•The DOI: what? why? How?
•What is a CrossRef Affiliate?
•What can Affiliates do with CrossRef data?
•How do Affiliates access CrossRef data?
•What’s in the works?

3. From roadblock…to
Easy, reliable
navigation

4. Broken links are a problem

6. Digital
Object
Identifier
What is a DOI?
Source: pasukaru76 from Flickr

7. It is alphanumeric a DOI?

8. It uniquely
identifies
content

9. It serves as a stable link to that
content’s digital location

10. What’s in a name?
http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/june2001.ianella
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smj.376
http://dx.doi.org/10.1265/ehpm.8.184
http://dx.doi.org/10.12345/abc

11. http://shortdoi.org
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12. DOI-enabled linking

13. 13
DOI syntax

14. 14
Now let’s make it actionable in
a browser…

15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jmpi.1995.0238

17. 17

18. 18
International DOI Foundation
•Oversees central DOI System
•Promotes DOI as a standard
•Provides organizational infrastructure
that ensures persistence and
interoperability

19. Current IDF
Registration Agencies

20. is the largest
Registration Agency

21. • Applications for scholarly
communications
• Develops and maintains
the DOI standard
• Develops and maintains the
Handle system upon which
the DOI executes
CrossRef/DOI Community

22. Handle-DOI-CrossRef relationship
Handle
general-purpose naming service
Requires customized solution
DOI
organizational structure for persistence
CrossRef
programmatic linking and discovery service
Easy for publisher to automate

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Current head count: 24 (FTE 22.50)
2014 projected end of year head count: 26 (FTE 24.50)
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We have 25 employees (22.5 FTE)

25. CrossRef is not-for-profit
•Organized as a trade association in New
York
•Financially independent
•Members include publishers with both
open access and subscription models
•Governed by a volunteer board of
directors elected by members,

27. What Does CrossRef Do?
•Provides technology infrastructure for
linking
Registers DOIs with the Handle System
Provides discoverability services for those DOIs
•Provides business infrastructure for
linking
One agreement with CrossRef is a linking
agreement with all CrossRef publishers

28. Cross-publisher means…
• No need for
bilateral
negotiations
between
affiliates
and
individual
publishers
Photo: Alexandra Lee

29. Linking
Reference Linking Cited-by Linking
Discovery and Delivery
CrossRef Metadata Services Bibliographic Management
CrossRef Metadata Search Document Delivery
Multiple Resolution Link Resolvers
CrossRef APIs
Evaluating
CrossCheck Article Level Metrics
CrossMark PreScore
FundRef
Collaborating
Linked Data Text and Data Mining
FundRef NISO OA Indicator
Threaded Publications Journal Article Tag Set (JATS)
Enables
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30. 0
10,000,000
20,000,000
30,000,000
40,000,000
50,000,000
60,000,000
70,000,000
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Total CrossRef DOIs
66 million CrossRef DOIs!

31. Not just journals!
Journals
79%
Books
12%
Conference
proceedings
5%
Data sets
Components 2% Other 1%
0%

32. 0
1,000,000
2,000,000
3,000,000
4,000,000
5,000,000
6,000,000
7,000,000
8,000,000
9,000,000
2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014
CrossRef Book DOIs
Book Titles Chapters & Reference Entries
8.2 mil
6.4 mil
Books growing rapidly

33. But Data is growing faster
1,002,450
1,407,114
0
200,000
400,000
600,000
800,000
1,000,000
1,200,000
1,400,000
1,600,000
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
Components (Data Sets, Figures, Tables, etc.)

34. Almost 1.5 million data
items/figures/components have
CrossRef DOIs
•Protein Data Bank
•International Union of Crystallography (IUCR)
•Organization for Economic Development (OECD)
•Public Library of Science (PLoS)

35. Linking 5 centuries of content
Century # of DOIs deposited
17th 1,686
18th 4,200
19th 651,584
20th 20,804,031
21st 13,703,134
1665

38. • 389 CrossRef Member
Publishers participate
• 386 million CrossRef Cited-
By links
• 27 million documents have
CrossRef Cited-By links
• 21 million CrossRef records
have references
0
500
20072008200920102011201220132014
# of CrossRef Cited-
by Publishers

40. Works with Publishers, Libraries, and others
Publishers
LibrariesAffiliates

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EDUCATOR ASSOCIATION ● AKADEMIAI KIADO RT ● ALEXANDRINE PRESS ● ALLERTON PRESS ● ALPHAMED PRESS ● AMERICAN ACADEMY OF IMPLANT DENTISTRY ● AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS ● AMERICAN ACADEMY OF
PERIODONTOLOGY ● AMERICAN ACCOUNTING ASSOCIATION ● AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH ● AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CLINICAL CHEMISTRY ● AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE
(AAAS) (the publisher of SCIENCE) ● AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS (AAPG/DATAPAGES) ● AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENTISTS ● AMERICAN ASSOCIATION ON MENTAL RETARDATION ●
AMERICAN BOARD OF FAMILY MEDICINE ● AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (ACS) ● AMERICAN CLEFT PALATE ASSOCIATION ● AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CHEST PHYSICIANS ● AMERICAN COLLEGE OF MEDICAL PHYSICS (ACMP) ● AMERICAN
COLLEGE OF VETERINARY INTERNAL MEDICINE ● AMERICAN COLLEGE OF VETERINARY PATHOLOGISTS ● AMERICAN DAIRY SCIENCE ASSOCIATION ● AMERICAN DENTAL SOCIETY OF ANESTHESIOLOGY ● AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION
● AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION ● AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION ● AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY ● AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION (AGU) ● AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS (AIAA)
● AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS (AIP) ● AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NEURORADIOLOGY ● AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE ● AMERICAN MARKETING ASSOCIATION ● AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY (AMS) ● AMERICAN MEDICAL
ASSOCIATION ● AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY ● AMERICAN PEANUT RESEARCH AND EDUCATION SOCIETY ● AMERICAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION ● AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (APS) ● AMERICAN PHYSICAL THERAPY
ASSOCIATION (APTA) ● AMERICAN PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY ● AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC PUBLISHING ● AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (APA) ● AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION ● AMERICAN ROENTGEN RAY SOCIETY ●
AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS ● AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHERS ● AMERICAN SCIENTIST ● AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY (ASBMB) ● AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR BONE AND
MINERAL RESEARCH ● AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR CELL BIOLOGY ● AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR CLINICAL INVESTIGATION (ASCI) ● AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR CLINICAL PATHOLOGY ● AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR EXPERIMENTAL
NEUROTHERAPEUTICS ● AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INVESTIGATIVE PATHOLOGY ● AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MICROBIOLOGY ● AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR PHARMACOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL THERAPEUTICS ● AMERICAN SOCIETY OF
AGRONOMY ● AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ANDROLOGY ● AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ANIMAL SCIENCE ● AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS ● AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY (ASCO) ● AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEALTH SYSTEM
PHARMACISTS ● AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEMATOLOGY ● AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY ● AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PLANT BIOLOGISTS (ASPB) ● AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PLANT TAXONOMISTS ● AMERICAN SPEECH-LANGUAGE-
HEARING ASSOCIATION ● AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION ● AMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY ● AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ● AMMONS SCIENTIFIC ● THE ANGLE ORTHODONTIST ● ANNALS OF FAMILY MEDICINE ●
ANNUAL REVIEWS ● ARNOLD PUBLISHERS ● ASM INTERNATIONAL ● ASME INTERNATIONAL ● ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS ● ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY (ACM) ● ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH IN VISION
AND OPHTHALMOLOGY (ARVO) ● ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION ● ASSOCIATION FOR VASCULAR ACCESS ● ASSOCIATION OF LEARNED AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY PUBLISHERS (ALPSP) ● ASTM
INTERNATIONAL ● ATLANTIS PRESS ● AUSTRALIAN ACADEMIC PRESS ● AUSTRALIAN COMPUTER SOCIETY ● BAYWOOD PUBLISHING COMPANY INC. ● BC DECKER INC. ● BEECH TREE PUBLISHING ● BEGELL HOUSE ● BELLWETHER
PUBLISHING ● BENTHAM SCIENCE ● BERGHAHN BOOKS ● BERKELEY ELECTRONIC PRESS ● BIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES ONLINE ● BIOMED CENTRAL LTD. ● BIOONE ● BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY ● BIOSCIENTIFICA ● BLACKHORSE PUBLISHING ●
BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP ● BRILL ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS ● BRITISH EDITORIAL SOCIETY OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY ● BRITISH INSTITUTE OF NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING ● BRITISH INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGY ● BRITISH
PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY ● BULLETIN OF THE ATOMIC SCIENTISTS ● CABI PUBLISHING ● CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SCIENCE ● CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS (CUP) ● CANADIAN ACADEMIC ACCOUNTING ASSOCIATION ●
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS ● CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ● CANADIAN METEOROLOGICAL AND OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ● CANADIAN OPTHALMOLOGICAL SOCIETY ● CARDEN JENNINGS PUBLISHING
CO. ● CARL HANSER VERLAG ● CARTOGRAPHY AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SOCIETY ● CELL STRESS SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL ● CENTER FOR PSYCHIATRIC REHABILITATION ● CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION ●
CENTRAALBUREAU VOOR SCHIMMELCULTURES ● CENTRE FOR BIOSCIENCEUNIVERSITY OF LEEDS ● CFA INSTITUTE ● CLAY MINERALS SOCIETY ● COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY PRESS (CSHL) ● COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION ●
COMMON GROUND ● COMMONWEALTH FORESTRY ASSOCIATION ● THE COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS ● COMPARATIVE LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH CENTER ● COMPETENCE NETWORK PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY & HEMATOLOGY ● CONSERVATION
INTERNATIONAL ● CORNELL LABORATORY OF ORNITHOLOGY ● CROP SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA ● CSIRO PUBLISHING ● CURRENT BIODATA ● CZECH GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY ● CZECH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ● DAAAM INTERNATIONAL ●
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE LIBRARY ● DATA TRACE PUBLISHING COMPANY ● DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL IMAGINGUNIVERSITY OF MALAYA ● DEPARTMENT OF POLYMER ENGINEERINGSCIENTIFIC SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL
ENGINEERING(BME) ● DIETITIANS OF CANADA ● DOVE MEDICAL PRESS ● DOWN SYNDROME EDUCATIONAL TRUST ● DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS ● E-MED LTD. ● ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA ● ECOMED PUBLISHERS ● EDICIONES
DOYMA ● EDP SCIENCES ● THE ELECTROMAGNETICS ACADEMY ● ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY ● ELSEVIER ● EMERALD (formerly MCB UP) ● EMW PUBLISHING ● THE ENDOCRINE SOCIETY ● ENGLISH LITERATURE IN
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PUBLISHERS ● EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF AQUATIC MAMMALS ● EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY ● EUROPEAN OPTICAL SOCIETY ● EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY SOCIETY ● FACULTY OF FAMILY PLANNING AND
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE ● FDI WORLD DENTAL PRESS LTD. ● FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SOCIETIES FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY (FASEB) ● THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH ● FIBRE DIFFRACTION REVIEW ●
FISHERIES SCIENCES.COM ● FORUM FOR GLOBAL HEALTH PROTECTION ● FRAUNHOFER-INSTITUT FUR MATERIALFLUSS UND LOGISTIK ● FRONTIERS IN BIOSCIENCE ● FUNDACION INFANCIA Y APRENDIZAJE ● FUTURE DRUGS ● FUTURE
MEDICINE LTD ● GAZI UNIVERSITY - TECHNICAL EDUCATION FACULTY ● THE GENETICS SOCIETY OF AMERICA ● GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (GSA) ● GEOPHYSICAL CENTER OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ●
GEOSCIENCEWORLD ● GUILFORD PUBLICATIONS ● GUNTHER EYSENBACHJMIR PUBLICATIONS ● GWV FACHVERLAGE GmbH/VIEWEG PUBLISHING ● THE ALAN GUTTMACHER INSTITUTE ● HARVEY WHITNEY BOOKS CO. ● THE HAWORTH
PRESSINC. ● HEALTH AFFAIRS (PROJECT HOPE) ● HELDREF PUBLICATIONS ● THE HIGHER EDUCATION ELECTRONIC & AUDIO-VIDEO PRESS ● HINDAWI PUBLISHING CORPORATION ● THE HISTOCHEMICAL SOCIETY ● THE HISTORIC BRASS
SOCIETY ● HOGREFE & HUBER PUBLISHING GROUP ● HUMAN FACTORS AND ERGONOMICS SOCIETY ● HUMANA PRESS ● IFIS PUBLISHING ● ILLUMINATING ENGINEERING SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA (IESNA) ● IM PUBLICATIONS ●
IMPROBABLE RESEARCH INC. ● INDERSCIENCE ENTERPRISES ● INDIANA UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR GENOMICS AND BIOINFORMATICS ● INDIANA UNIVERSITY MATHEMATICS JOURNAL ● INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS ● INFORMA UK LIMITED ●
INSTITUTE FOR OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND THE MANAGEMENT SCIENCES (INFORMS) ● INSTITUTION OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS ● INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (IET) ● THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS
ENGINEERS (IEEE) ● INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRYACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC ● INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL OPTICS ● INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS (IOP) ● INSTITUTE OF PURE AND APPLIED PHYSICS
(IPAP) ● INSTITUTE OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES ● INTEGRATED OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM- MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL ● INTEL CORPORATION ● INTELLECT ● INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR BRIDGE AND STRUCTURAL
ENGINEERING (IABSE) ● INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HYDROLOGICAL SCIENCES ● INTERNATIONAL BONE AND MINERAL SOCIETY ● INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF AUTOMATIC CONTROL ● INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH
INSTITUTE ● INTERNATIONAL GLACIOLOGICAL SOCIETY ● INTERNATIONAL HORMESIS SOCIETY ● INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOANALYSISLONDON ● INTERNATIONAL LIFE SCIENCES INSTITUTE ● INTERNATIONAL PHYCOLOGICAL
SOCIETY ● INTERNATIONAL READING ASSOCIATION ● INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ENDOVASCULAR SPECIALISTS ● INTERNATIONAL UNION OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY (IUCr) ● INTERNATIONAL UNION OF PURE AND APPLIED CHEMISTRY (IUPAC)
● IWA PUBLISHING ● JAPAN LASER PROCESSING SOCIETY ● JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY (JST) ● JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY ● JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS (Project Muse) ● JOHNSON GRADUATE
SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENTCORNELL UNIVERSITY ● JOHNSON MATTHEY ● JORNAL DE PEDIATRIA ● JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY ● JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGERY PUBLISHING GROUP (JNSPG) ● JOURNAL OF MARINE
RESEARCH/YALE UNIVERSITY ● JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDIC & SPORTS PHYSICAL THERAPY ● JOURNAL OF REHABILITATION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (JRRD) ● JOURNAL OF ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCIENCE ● JSTOR ● S. KARGER AG
● LAMAZE INTERNATIONAL ● LANDSCAPE ONLINE ● LASER PAGES PUBLISHING LTD. ● LAVOISIER ● LIBRAPHARM ● LOGICAL METHODS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE ● LOGOS INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING EDUCATION FOUNDATION ● M.E. SHARPE
INC. ● MANEY PUBLISHING ● MARS INFORMATICS ● MARSHFIELD CLINIC ● MARY ANN LIEBERT ● MATERIALS RESEARCH SOCIETY ● MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE PUBLISHERS ● MBLWHOI LIBRARY "WOODS HOLE OPEN ACCESS SERVER" ●
MCFARLAND & COMPANY INC.PUBLISHERS ● MCON INC. ● MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ● MEN'S STUDIES PRESS LLC ● MILBANK MEMORIAL FUND ● THE MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY ● MIT PRESS ● MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION OF
AMERICA ● MOHR SIEBECK e.k. ● MONASH UNIVERSITY EPRESS ● MORGAN & CLAYPOOL PUBLISHERS LLC ● MTT AGRIFOOD RESEARCH FINLAND ● MULTILINGUAL MATTERS LTD ● MULTI-SCIENCE PUBLISHING CO LTD. ● NATIONAL
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INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS ● NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SERBIA ● NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA (NRCC) ● NATIONAL SCIENCE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION ● NATIONAL STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING ASSOCIATION ● NATURE
PUBLISHING GROUP ● NEPAL JOURNALS ONLINE ● NEOPLASIA PRESS ● NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE ● NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ● NORTHWEST ATLANTIC FISHERIES ORGANIZATION ● NOW PUBLISHERS INC. ● NUCLEAR
RECEPTOR SIGNALING ATLAS ● OCEANSIDE PUBLICATIONS INC. ● OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION ● OLDENBOURG WISSENSCHAFTSVERLAG GMBH ● ONCOLOGY NURSING SOCIETY ● OPERATIVE DENTISTRY ● OPTICAL
SOCIETY OF AMERICA ● OSTERREICHISCHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTENVERLAG ● OXFORD INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS ● OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS (OUP) ● PACIFIC NORTHWEST FUNGI PROJECT ● PATRICIA SEYBOLD GROUP ●
PEETERS PUBLISHERS ● PHARMACEUTICAL PRESS ● PHARMACOTHERAPY PUBLICATIONSINC. ● PHORTE EDITORA ● PIERS ENTERPRISE ● PIONLTD ● PLEIADES PUBLISHING ● THE POLICY PRESSUNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL ● PORTLAND
PRESS ● PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (PNAS) ● PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING PUBLISHING ● PROJECT EUCLID ● PROTEIN DATA BANKRUTGERS UNIVERSITY ● PROUS SCIENCE ● THE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF
SCIENCE ● QUESTIONS PUBLISHING ● RADIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA ● RADIOLOGY CASE REPORTS ● RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CFA INSTITUTE ● RESEARCH INFORMATION LTD. ● RILEM PUBLICATIONS SARL ● THE
ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY PRESS ● ROYAL COLLEGE OF OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNAECOLOGISTS ● ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS ● THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND ● THE ROYAL SOCIETY ● THE ROYAL SOCIETY
OF CHEMISTRY (RSC) ● THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE ● RURAL SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETY ● SAGE PUBLICATIONS ● SCHATTAUER GMBH ● SCHWEIZERBART ● SCIDEA LTD. ● SCIELO/PAHO/WHO ● SCIENCE IN CHINA PRESS ● SCIENCE
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PORTUGUESA DE VIDA SELVAGEM ● SOCIETE DE PATHOLOGIE EXOTIQUE ● SOCIETY FOR APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY ● SOCIETY FOR BIOMEDICAL DIABETES RESEARCH ● SOCIETY FOR ENDOCRINOLOGY ● SOCIETY FOR THE EXPERIMENTAL
ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR ● SOCIETY FOR GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY ● SOCIETY FOR IMAGING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ● SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS ● SOCIETY FOR LEUKOCYTE BIOLOGY ● SOCIETY FOR
NEUROSCIENCE ● SOCIETY FOR PEDIATRIC PATHOLOGY ● THE SOCIETY FOR SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY ● SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF REPRODUCTION ● THE SOCIETY OF ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY ● SOCIETY OF
NUCLEAR MEDICINE ● SOCIETY OF PETROLEUM ENGINEERS ● SOCIETY OF RHEOLOGY ● SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION SOCIETY ● SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA ● SPIE - THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR OPTICAL ENGINEERING ●
SPRINGER PUBLISHING COMPANY ● SPRINGER SCIENCE + BUSINESS MEDIA (Kluwer Academic Publishers) ● STEWART POSTHARVEST SOLUTIONS ● SWISS CHEMICAL SOCIETY ● SWISS FORESTRY SOCIETY ● SYMPOSIUM JOURNALS ● TASH ●
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES ● THEOLOGICAL RESEARCH EXCHANGE NETWORK ● THIEME PUBLISHING GROUP ● THOMAS LAND PUBLISHERS ● THOMAS TELFORD LTD. ● TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD ● TURPION ● UBC
PRESS ● UITGEVERIJ BOOM ● UNITED KINGDOM SERIALS GROUP (UKSG) ● UNIVERSITE DU QUEBEC A CHICOUTIMI ● UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA ● UNIVERSITY OF BATH ● UNIVERSITY OF CADIZ LIBRARY ● UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS ●
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS ● UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS INC. ● UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES ● UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB - UNIVERSITY COMPUTING CENTRE ● US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
(USGS) ● USDA FOREST SERVICE ● VATHEK PUBLISHING ● VERSITA ● VIETICA INC. ● VIETNAM JOURNALS ONLINE ● VITTORIO KLOSTERMANN GMBH ● WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH & CO. KG ● WATER ENVIRONMENT FEDERATION ●
WESTBURN PUBLISHERS LTD ● WILDERNESS MEDICAL SOCIETY ● WHO PRESS ● JOHN WILEY & SONS ● WHITE HORSE PRESS ● WITPRESS LTD. ● WOLTERS KLUWER HEALTH ● WOODHEAD PUBLISHING LTD. ● WORLD ADVERTISING
RESEARCH CENTER ● THE WORLD BANK ● THE WORLD CONSERVATION UNION (IUCN) ● WORLD SCIENTIFIC ●

43. 43
Members from 81 countries

44. 0
100
200
300
400
500
20 Countries with the Largest
# of CrossRef Members

45. Photo by Joi Ito

46. membership
• Science, Technology and Medicine
• Humanities
• Social Sciences
• Professional

47. •Links deliver
the user to the
publisher’s
front door.
Access control
is up to the
publisher.
is “business-model
neutral”
Photo: Tawheed Manzoor

48. membership
• Commercial publishers
• Academic societies
• Other non-profits
• University presses
• Open access publishers
• Institutional repositories
• Government agencies

49. What is a CrossRef Affiliate?
An organization that has a license to use
CrossRef system interfaces to
–discover
–display
–retrieve
bibliographic metadata and/or DOIs and
use them to link to the publishers’ full
text

50. •query the CrossRef system for DOIs and metadata
•get bulk updates of metadata
•act on behalf of members
83 Non-Publisher Affiliates
Query, 48
Metadata
Services, 2
0
Service
Providers
8
Sponsors
7

51. Types of Affiliates
•CrossRef Service Provider
•Query Affiliate
•CrossRef Metadata Services Affiliate
•End User Lookup Affiliate
•Library Affiliate

52. What kinds of organizations
can be CrossRef Affiliates?
• Government Agencies
• Hosting platforms
• Data entry and copyediting vendors
• Secondary database publishers
• Library linking solutions providers
• Document delivery providers
• Reference management vendors
• Citation metrics providers
• Discovery services
• Search engines
• Content aggregators

53. Why Affiliates join CrossRef
•Enhance services by linking directly to full-
text
•Offer CrossRef linking to libraries or
publishers as part of vendor services
•Expand publication coverage at a low cost
•Gain efficiencies of centralized linking
agreements
•Provide increased discoverability to end
users

54. Benefits of becoming an Affiliate
• Access to CrossRef DOIs and Metadata
• License to deposit and query on behalf of CrossRef
member and Library Affiliates
• Participation in Technical Working Group
• CrossRef Quarterly Newsletter
• Invitation to Annual Meeting and Workshop
• Display of Authorized Affiliate Logo on marketing
materials
• Listing on CrossRef Affiliate Page

55. Query Affiliates—Who is it
for?
•Publishing or Library vendors that need
their own query account
•Secondary publishers
•Other organizations that need to look up
DOIs.
•Example: European Patent Office

56. Query Affiliate—What’s
Included?
•Username and password to query the
CrossRef system.
•License to display CrossRef metadata
and DOIs for the purposes of linking to
publisher full text.
•The ability to cache data for future use.

57. Query Affiliate—What Does It
Cost?
Total Revenue Annual Fee
< $1 mil $500
$1-10 mil $2,000
> $10 mil $10,000

58. Query Affiliate—How to
Access CrossRef Data
• Submit XML queries to CrossRef Web System at
http://doi.crossref.org
• You will receive your own login credentials.
• Alternately, you may use our OpenURL interface.
• Technical details can be found at
http://www.crossref.org/help/CrossRef_Help.htm

59. CrossRef Metadata Services
Affiliate
Who is it for?
• Organizations that want to supplement metadata
from other sources
• Organizations providing citation metrics
• Document delivery providers
• Discovery services
• Search engines
• Content aggregators

60. CrossRef Metadata Services
Affiliate—What’s Included?
•Bulk download of participating
publishers’ metadata and/or reference
data
•OAI/PMH “pull” access to data on
Affiliate’s schedule
•License to integrate CrossRef Metadata
with other metadata
•License to use reference data for
citation metrics

61. CrossRef Metadata Services
Affiliate—Additional information
•CrossRef member publishers have the
ability to opt out of providing data to any
CMS Affiliate.
•Opt-outs may include just article metadata
or may include references deposited for
Cited-by linking
•Only journal content is currently available.
•Enhanced CMS is the only CrossRef
program that provides reference data

62. CrossRef Metadata Services
Affiliate
How to Access CrossRef Data
• Use the OAI-PMH interface to pull bulk data on your
own schedule.
• Technical details are available here:
http://www.crossref.org/help/CrossRef_Help.htm

63. CrossRef Metadata Services
Affiliate—What Does It Cost?
Total Revenue
< $ 1 mil $1-10 mil > $10 mil
Annual Fee $3,000 $15,000 $40,000

64. End User Lookup Affiliate—
Who is it for?
•Organizations that facilitate end-user
lookup of CrossRef DOIs or metadata
•Typically reference management
services
•End user looks up the data in real time
This might be an option for having patent applications look
Up DOIs at the time of submission

65. End User Lookup Affiliate—
What’s Included?
•The right to pass through end-user
queries of the CrossRef system via the
OpenURL interface
•Does not include the right to cache the
data

66. End User Lookup Affiliate—
What Does It Cost?
No charge

67. End User Lookup Affiliate—
How to Access CrossRef Data
• OpenURL interface
• Technical details can be found at
http://www.crossref.org/help/CrossRef_Help.htm

68. Approximate Number of Records
CrossRef 66 million
ORCID 696 thousand
PubMed 23 million
SCOPUS 49 million
Web of Science 50 Million

69. CrossRef Metadata Services
Affiliates
• ACADEMIC ANALYTICS,
LLC
• ACADEMIC MEDICAL
CENTER
• ALTMETRIC
• BIOINFOBANK INSTITUTE
• CAMBIA
• COPYRIGHT
CLEARANCE CENTER
(CCC)
• DIALOG
• DEEPDYVE
• EASYBIB.COM
• EPISTEMIO, LTD.
• EUROPEAN
BIOINFORMATICS
INSTITUTE (EMBL)
• EX LIBRIS LTD.
• HINDAWI
• INFORMASCOPE
• KISTI
• LABTIVA
• MENDELEY
• MESUR
• NASA ADS
• OCLC
• ONTARIO COUNCIL OF
UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
(OCUL)
• PLUM ANALYTICS
• PROQUEST LLC.
• PUBGET INC.
• REPRINTS DESK
• SCIENCE-METRIX
• SCIENCESCAPE, INC.
• SCHOLARMATE
• SCIRUS
• SUNMEDIA
• SYMPLECTIC LTD.
• TALIS
• TECHNICAL
INFORMATION CENTER
OF DENMARK (DTU
LIBRARY)
• THIRD IRON
See more at: http://www.crossref.org/01company/08affiliates.html#cms_affiliates

70. Basic Principle of Affiliate
•Participants pay for every service they
receive.
•No discounts are available to ensure a
level playing field for all organizations.

71. When are Affiliates billed?
•Affiliates are billed on a calendar year
basis in December (due in January) for
the period January through December.

72. http://search.crossref.org

73. Journal Metadata Fields
• publication title*
• abbrev_title (publisher-supplied title abbreviations)
• ISSNs (print and/or electronic)
• *volumeissuepublication_date (day, month, year*
• publisher_name (name of the owner in our system - not
necessarily the publisher)
• article_title
• *contributors (author given name and surname, organization
names)
• first_page
• last_pagepublication_type (full_text, abstract)
• DOI*
* Required fields

74. Additional Metadata
Available
• ORCIDs
• CrossRef FundRef Funder Data
• Article Level Open Access Indicators (planned)
• CrossRef CrossMark Update Information
• CrossRef CrossMark Publication Record Metadata
– Peer Review Information
– Publication History
– Threaded Publications
– License Information
– CrossCheck Screening Status

75. Microsoft Academic Search
displays CrossMark logo

76. Open Access Indicators
• Article level OA indicators will support
discovery of OA content in hybrid
journals.
• They can be displayed in CrossRef’s
CrossMark

77. Complete Participants Lists
•Publishers:
http://www.crossref.org/01company/06publishers.htm
l
•Affiliates:
http://www.crossref.org/01company/08affiliates.html
•Libraries:
http://www.crossref.org/01company/07libraries.html

78. Content Coverage
Complete Title List:
http://www.crossref.org/titleList/

79. http://search.crossref.org/fundref

80. Thank you!
cmeyer@crossref.org