Blog

Good, better, best. Never let it rest.

Jennifer Kemp – 2018 October 16

In BooksContent RegistrationMetadataContent TypesBest Practices

Best practices seem to be having a moment. In the ten years since the Books Advisory Group first created a best practice guide for books, the community beyond Crossref has developed or updated at least 17 best practice resources, as collected here by the Metadata 2020 initiative. (Full disclosure: I co-chair its Best Practices group.)

Metadata Manager: Members, represent!

Jennifer Lin – 2018 October 15

In MetadataContent RegistrationCitationsIdentifiers

Over 100 Million unique scholarly works are distributed into systems across the research enterprise ²⁴⁄₇ via our APIs at a rate of around 633 Million queries a month. Crossref is broadcasting descriptions of these works (metadata) to all corners of the digital universe.

Using the Crossref REST API. Part 12 (with Europe PMC)

Christine Cormack Wood, Michael Parkin – 2018 October 10

In APISApi Case StudyPreprints

As part of our blog series highlighting some of the tools and services that use our API, we asked Michael Parkin—Data Scientist at the European Bioinformatics Institute—a few questions about how Europe PMC uses our metadata where preprints are concerned.

A wrap up of the Crossref blog series for SciELO

Christine Cormack Wood – 2018 October 05

In CommunityDoiContent TypesSponsorshipMembershipTranslations

Crossref member SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online), based in Brazil, celebrated two decades of operation last week with a three-day event The SciELO 20 Years Conference.

Data citation: let’s do this

Rachael Lammey, Helena Cousijn – 2018 October 04

In DataCitationDataCite

Data citation is seen as one of the most important ways to establish data as a first-class scientific output. At Crossref and DataCite we are seeing growth in journal articles and other content types citing data, and datasets making the link the other way. Our organizations are committed to working together to help realize the data citation community’s ambition, so we’re embarking on a dedicated effort to get things moving.

100,000,000 records - thank you!

Ed Pentz – 2018 September 26

In ParticipationContent RegistrationMetadata

100,000,000. Yes, it’s a really big number—and you helped make it happen. We’d like to say thank you to all our members, without your commitment and contribution we would not be celebrating this significant milestone. It really is no small feat.

Join us in Toronto this November for LIVE18

Christine Cormack Wood – 2018 September 25

In CommunityCrossref LiveAnnual Meeting

LIVE18, your Crossref annual meeting, is fast approaching! We’re looking forward to welcoming everyone in Toronto, November 13-14.

Using the Crossref REST API. Part 11 (with MDPI/Scilit)

Christine Cormack Wood, Martyn Rittman, Bastien Latard – 2018 September 18

In APISIdentifiersInteroperabilityApi Case Study

Continuing our blog series highlighting the uses of Crossref metadata, we talked to Martyn Rittman and Bastien Latard who tell us about themselves, MDPI and Scilit, and how they use Crossref metadata.

Where does publisher metadata go and how is it used?

Laura J Wilkinson – 2018 September 17

In ParticipationContent RegistrationMetadataBest Practice

Earlier this week, colleagues from Crossref, ScienceOpen, and OPERAS/OpenEdition joined forces to run a webinar on “Where does publisher metadata go and how is it used?”.

Event Data is production ready

Christine Buske – 2018 September 12

In CitationCollaborationDataEvent DataIdentifiers

We’ve been working on Event Data for some time now, and in the spirit of openness, much of that story has already been shared with the community. In fact, when I recently joined as Crossref’s Product Manager for Event Data, I jumped onto an already fast moving train—headed for a bright horizon.

RSS Feed