2013 crossref workshops boot camp introduction carol anne meyer

Boot CampAn Introduction to

Carol Anne MeyerPatricia FeeneyAnna Tolwinska

Susan CollinsLisa Hart

CrossRef Workshops12 November 2013

Cambridge, MA, USA

This Morning

• Business Overview

–Carol Anne Meyer

–Finance & Billing, Lisa Hart

• Technical Overview

–Patricia Feeney

• Tools for Small Publishers

–Anna Tolwinska

• CrossCheck

–Susan Collins

• Finance & Operations

–Lisa Hart

Business Overview

•Why publishers join CrossRef

•What is a DOI?

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??Why do publishers join CrossRef?

To get persistent identifiers for their content

To drive more traffic to their content

To turn references into hyperlinks

To pull in cited-by links (who cites this?) to get more traffic

Participate in other collaborative services (CrossCheck, CrossMark, FundRef)

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Broken links are a problem

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Digital

Object

Identifier

What is a DOI?

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It is alphanumeric a DOI?

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It uniquely identifies content

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

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It looks like this:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/june2001.ianellahttp://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smj.376http://dx.doi.org/10.1265/ehpm.8.184http://dx.doi.org/10.12345/abc

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DOI-enabled linking

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DOI syntax

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Now let’s make it actionable in a browser…

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

DOI suffixes must be

Unique within a prefix

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DOI suffixes should be

•Consistent

•Logical

•Easily documented

•Readily implemented

•Short

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DOI suffixes may be

•Opaque

•Meaningful

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http://dx.doi.org/10.nnnnn/DOIsuffixgoeshere

replacesdoi:10.nnnnn/DOIsuffixgoeshereDOI:10.nnnnn/DOIsuffixgoeshereDoi: 10.nnnnn/DOIsuffixgoeshere

and other variations.

New display guidelines

More Information:http://www.crossref.org/02publishers/doi_display_guidelines.html

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International DOI Foundation

•Oversees central DOI System

•Promotes DOI as a standard

•Provides organizational infrastructure that ensures persistence and interoperability

IDF Registration Agencies (RAs)• Airiti

• China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI)

• DataCite

• Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR)

• The Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC)

• Japan Link Center (JaLC)

• mEDRA

• OPOCE (Office des publications EU)

• CrossRef

is the largest Registration Agency

What Does CrossRef Do?

• Provides technology infrastructure for linking

Registers DOIs with the Handle SystemProvides discoverability services for those DOIs

•Provides business infrastructure for linking

One agreement with CrossRef is a linking agreement with all CrossRef publishers

Services

•Reference linking

•Cited-by linking

•Metadata feeds to third parties

•Plagiarism screening

•Update identification

•Funding identification

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Cross-publisher means…

• No need for bilateral negotiations between publishers, or between a third-party and individual publishers

Photo: Alexandra Lee

63 million CrossRef DOIs!

Content beyond journals…

Data is the fastest growing content, books the 2nd fastest

More than 1 million data items/figures/components have CrossRef DOIs

• Protein Data Bank

• Standards in Genomic Science

• Organization for Economic Development (OECD)

• Public Library of Science

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

• International Union of Crystallography (IUCR)

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Linking 5 centuries of content

1665

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membership

• STM

• Humanities

• Social science

• Professional

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•Links deliver the user to the publisher’s front door. Access control is up to the publisher.

is “business-model neutral”

Photo: Tawheed Manzoor

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membership

• Represents 76 countries

Traffic to publishers’ sites# of DOI resolutions or “clicks” each year

(000)

Where do people discover CrossRef DOIs?

•Scholarly References

•Abstracting & Indexing services

•Reference management tools

•Search engines

•Aggregated reference products

•Online library catalogs (i.e. WorldCat)

Microsoft Academic Search uses CrossRef Metadata

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membership

• Commercial publishers

• Academic societies

• Other non-profits

• University presses

• Open access publishers

• Institutional repositories

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Participationwelcome!

Is a membership organization

Photo: James Duncan Davidson

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Stay informed: get involved

•CrossRef Annual Meeting

•CrossRef Board and Committees

•CrossRef Books Interest Group

•CrossRef Support Forum

•CrossRef and CrossTech blogs

•CrossRef Quarterly

•www.facebook.com/crossref

•Twitter: @CrossRefNews

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Fees: Annual MembershipAnnual Publishing Revenue Annual Fee

< $1 million $275

$1 million-$5 million $550

$5 million-$10 million $1,650

$10 million-$25 million $3,900

$25 million-$50 million $8,300

$50 million-$100 million $14,000

$100 million-$200 million $22,000

$200 million-$500 million $33,000

>$500 million $50,000

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One-Time Deposit Fees

Deposit Type Per-DOI Fee

Current records (2008-2010)

$1.00

Book chapters and reference entries ≤ 250 per title

$0.25

Book chapters and reference entries > 250 per title

$0.15

Backfiles $0.15

Components, data records $.06

Journal Titles free

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Member Obligations

• Display CrossRef DOIs on response pages

• Deposit all current journal articles

• Link out from current journal references

• Resolve CrossRef DOI conflicts

• Update metadata and especially URLs

• Do not publicize CrossRef DOIs until links are live

• Pay bills on time

• Update contact information

• Make plans for long term archiving

Options for Archiving

CLOCKSS: http://clockss.org

Koninklijke Bibliotheek / National Library of the Netherlands:http://www.kb.nl/

Portico: http://www.portico.org

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Best Practices for CrossRef Members• Display DOIs as URLs

• Provide “how to cite” guidance, including DOIs

• Include DOIs in citation downloads

• Include DOIs in metadata feeds to third parties, ie PubMed

• Participate in additional services:

–CrossRef Metadata Service, Cited-by Linking, CrossCheck, CrossMark, FundRef

• Make your DOI suffixes short

http://shortdoi.org

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Thank you!

cmeyer@crossref.org