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Linking references is different from depositing references

Anna Tolwinska – 2018 May 30

In ReferencesReference LinkingCited-ByCitationLinking

From time to time we get questions from members asking what the difference is between reference linking and depositing references as part the content registration process. Here’s the distinction: Linking out to other articles from your reference lists is a key part of being a Crossref members - it’s an obligation in the membership agreement and it levels the playing field when all members link their references to one another.

SSP roadtrip for the Crossref team

Amanda Bartell – 2018 May 30

In Service ProvidersMeetingsParticipation ReportsEducationMember Experience

What do you think of when you think of Chicago? Deep dish pizza? Art Deco architecture? Well for one week only this year you can add scholarly publishing to the list as the #SSP2018 Conference comes to town. Some Crossref people are excited to be heading out for the conference, and we’re looking forward to meeting as many of our members as possible. Come along to stand 212A and talk to Anna Tolwinska about Participation Reports.

How good is your metadata?

Kirsty Meddings, Anna Tolwinska – 2018 April 26

In Member BriefingParticipationMetadataContent Registration

Exciting news! We are getting very close to the beta release of a new tool to publicly show metadata coverage. As members register their content with us they also add additional information which gives context for other members and for services that help e.g. discovery or analytics.

Richer metadata makes content useful. Participation reports will give—for the first time—a clear picture for anyone to see the metadata Crossref has. This is data that’s long been available via our Public REST API, now visualized.

Redirecting redirection

Geoffrey Bilder, Jonathan Rees, Henry Thompson – 2018 April 24

In IdentifiersLinked DataMetadataProgrammingStandards

Crossref has decided to change the HTTP redirect code used by our DOIs from 303 back to the more commonly used 302. Our implementation of 303 redirects back in 2010 was based on recommended best practice for supporting linked data identifiers. Unfortunately, very few other parties have adopted this practice.

Using the Crossref REST API. Part 8 (with Researchfish)

Christine Cormack Wood, Gavin Reddick – 2018 April 23

In APISIdentifiersInteroperabilityApi Case Study

Continuing our blog series highlighting the uses of Crossref metadata, we talked to Gavin Reddick, Chief Analyst at Researchfish about the work they’re doing, and how they’re using our REST API as part of their workflow.

PIDs for conferences - your comments are welcome!

Aliaksandr Birukou – 2018 April 19

In PersistenceConference IdsIdentifiersDataCiteCrossmark

Aliaksandr Birukou is the Executive Editor for Computer Science at Springer Nature and is chair of the Project PID Group that has been working to establish a persistent identifier system and registry for scholarly conferences. Here Alex provides some background to the work and asks for input from the community:

Roughly one year ago, Crossref and DataCite started a working group on conference and project identifiers. With this blog post, we would like to share the specification of conference metadata and Crossmark for proceedings and are inviting the broader community to comment.

Do you want to be on our Board?

Lisa Hart Martin – 2018 April 18

In BoardMember BriefingGovernanceElection

Do you want to effect change for the scholarly community?

The Crossref Nominating Committee is inviting expressions of interest to serve on the Board as it begins its consideration of a slate for the November 2018 election.

Hear this, real insight into the inner workings of Crossref

Joe Wass, Ginny Hendricks – 2018 April 01

In Member BriefingEvent DataLaunch

You want to hear more from us. We hear you. We’ve spent the past year building Crossref Event Data, and hope to launch very soon. Building a new piece of infrastructure from scratch has been an exciting project, and we’ve taken the opportunity to incorporate as much feedback from the community as possible. We’d like to take a moment to share some of the suggestions we had, and how we’ve acted on them.

Hello, meet Event Data Version 1, and new Product Manager

Christine Buske – 2018 March 29

In CitationCollaborationDataEvent DataIdentifiers

I joined Crossref only a few weeks ago, and have happily thrown myself into the world of Event Data as the service’s new product manager. In my first week, a lot of time was spent discussing the ins and outs of Event Data. This learning process made me very much feel like you might when you’ve just bought a house, and you’re studying the blueprints while also planning the house-warming party.

A Lustrum over the weekend

Jennifer Lin – 2018 March 26

In Content TypesSchema

The ancient Romans performed a purification rite (“lustration”) after taking a census every five years. The term [“lustrum”]([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lustrum) designated not only the animal sacrifice (“suovetaurilia”) but was also applied to the period of time itself. At Crossref, we’re not exactly in the business of sacrificial rituals. But over the weekend I thought it would be fun to dive into the metadata and look at very high level changes during this period of time.

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