CrossRef Overview and Initiatives

Carol Anne MeyerMarketing and Business Development

Meeting with CNKI30 August 2012

• Association of scholarly publishers– 1500 Members – Representing 4000 publishers

• 1700 Library Affiliates who can query system for DOIs and metadata• DOI Registration Agency for Scholarly Publications (mostly in English

language)• 55 Million DOIs Assigned

– Journal articles– Books and book chapters– Proceedings Papers– Reports, Thesis– Components

•Acta Ecologica Sinica•Baishideng Publishing Group Co., Limited (formerly WJG Press)•China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica•China Science Publishing & Media Ltd. •Chinese Birds (Press)•Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering•Consortia Academia Publishing•Editorial Office of Chinese Journal of Cancer•Editorial Office of Earth Science•Engineering Technology Press•Hong Kong STM Publishing Co., Ltd.

•Institute of Electronic and Information Technology (IEIT)•Journal of Applied Optics•Journal of Biomedical Research •Journal of Chinese Integrative Medicine Press •Journal of Chinese Pharmaceutical Sciences•Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE•MECS Publisher•Publishing House of Pharmaceutical Care and Research•Scidea Ltd.•Science China Press., Co. Ltd.•Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics•Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry•West China College of Stomatology, Sichuan University Press•World Journal of Emergency Medicine

26 Member Publishersin China

•Beijing Institute of Technology •Beijing Jiaotong University Library•Beijing Normal University•Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics•Beijing University of Technology Library•Capital Medical University Library •Fudan University Library•Guizhou University Library•Hong Kong Baptist University Library•Hospital Authority Hong Kong•Library of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences•Library of Shanghai Jiao Tong University Medical School•Library of University Town of Shenzhen•Lingnan University Library

•Nanjing Normal University Library•National Library of China•National Science and Technology Library •Patent Documentation Department, State Intellectual Property Office of People's Republic of China•Shanghai Jiao Tong University•Shanghai Jiao Tong University Library •Stanley Ho Library, The Open University of Hong Kong•The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Library•Tsinghua University Library•University Library System, The Chinese University of Hong Kong•University of Science and Technology of China Library•Wuhan University Library

27 Library Affiliates in China

•Wanfang Data Co., Ltd.•Beijing Magtech Co•The Charlesworth Group

Affiliates in China

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• Provides services publishers cannot accomplish alone—they require collaboration

• 16-member international board of directors from membership

• Many types of publishers: Commercial, societies, non-profits, university presses, Open Access publishers –66% non-profit

• A powerful NETWORK

• All subjects: STM, humanities, social science, professional

More about CrossRef

CrossRef’s MissionCrossRef's goal is to be a trusted collaborative organization with broad community connections; authoritative and innovative in support of a persistent, sustainable infrastructure for scholarly communication.

How we fulfill our mission:

• Reference Linking

• Cited-By Linking

• CrossCheck Plagiarism Screening

• CrossMark

Technical Infrastructure

• Unique identification

• Persistent citation and linking

• Managed system – no broken links

• Content discoverable

What’s in a name?

doi:10.3724/SP.J.1005.2010.00248

http://pub.chinasciencejournal.com/article/getArticle.action?articleId=12806

doi:10.3724/SP.J.1005.2010.00248

doi:10.3724/SP.J.1005.2010.00248

http://dx.doi.org/10.3724/SP.J.1005.2010.00248

User clicks on CrossRef DOI reference link in Journal A

Guo W, Wang ZY, Wang YL, Zhang ZP, Gui JF. Isolation and characterization of six microsatellite markers in the large yellow croaker (Pseucosciaena crocea Richardson). Mol Ecol Notes, 2005, 5(2): 369–371.  [CrossRef]

DOI directory

returns URL

User accesses

cited article in Journal B

Business Infrastructure

• One agreement with CrossRef is a linking agreement with all CrossRef participants

• Business Model Neutral

• Powerful Network Effects – value of network is proportional to the square of the number of users of the system

4,047 publishers and societies

55 million content items with DOIs

27,577 journal titles

324,591 book titles

23,898 conference proceedings

So far this year

•1,914,866 current content CrossRef DOIs

•1,658,161 back-file content CrossRef DOIs

•12,495,093 updates

•DOIs returned - 35% match

59,000,000

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• 324,591

• 5,178,396 chapters/entries

http://www.crossref.org/02publishers/dois_for_books.html

http://www.crossref.org/06members/best_practices_for_books.html

CrossRef Cited-By Linking

Who’s Citing You?

Discover how your publications are being cited and incorporate DOI

links to the citing content into your online publication.

283 Members

305,917,275 Cited-By Links

23,243,270 DOIs with Cited-By Links

18,116,258 Documents with References

CrossRef Open Linked Data

• April 2011 News Releasehttp://www.crossref.org/01company/pr/news042011.html

• Query CrossRef for Open Linked Data– Get bibliographic metadata for DOIs– for machines instead of humans

• More information here:http://www.crossref.org/CrossTech/2011/04/content_negotiation_for_crossr.html

Plagiarism Screening

Languages Supported

313 publishers

32 million documents indexed

72,749 titles

40 thousand manuscripts checked per month

A logo that identifies a publisher-maintained copy of a piece of content

Clicking the logo tells you

Whether there have been any updates

If this instance is being maintained by the publisher

Where the publisher-maintained version is

Other important publication record information

What is CrossMark?

What kind of Publication Record information could be

available?Funding disclosures

Conflict of interest statements

Publication history (submission, revision and accepted dates)

Location of data deposits or registries

Peer review process used

CrossCheck plagiarism screening

License types

and more...

Now!

Pilot running since summer 2011

Opened to all April 2012.

Live examples at

http://www.crossref.org/crossmark/AboutGallery.htm

* Implemented

• 15 Publishers

• 5 Publishers Implemented

• 61,452 Documents with CrossMark Data deposited

36,000 CrossMark records21 journals

390+ corrections

6000 “hits” on 1500 unique records

May Stats

In Summary

•CrossRef provides infrastructure to enable publishers to enhance their content and services

•CrossRef services drive traffic to publishers content

•CrossRef services will enable publishers to highlight the value they add to content

•CrossRef services will give researchers useful tools to make decisions about content

•If it’s not online it doesn’t exist

•If it’s not linked it doesn’t exist

•PDF warehouses are complete - the next stage is semantically enhanced content

•Publishers are moving from production houses to informatics houses

What’s in it for publishers?

•No publisher is an island - collaboration and connection is the key

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Find out more...

• CrossRef Chinese Web Site http://www.crossref.org.cn/

• CrossCheck http://www.crossref.org.cn/CrossCheck.html

• CrossMark• http://www.crossref.org/crossmark

Carol Anne Meyercmeyer@crossref.org

Thank You!