2. CrossRef:
Bene ts for Publishers
in Africa
Carol Anne Meyer
Marketing and Business
Development
CrossRef
African Journal Partnership Program
Bethesda, Maryland
29 April 2011
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6. Strategic .org
• CrossRef: membership
association of publishers
• Founded for strategic reasons:
services best achieved
collaboratively
• 16 member board of directors
from membership
• Many types of publishers:
Commercial, societies, non-
profits, university presses, OA
publishers –
57% non-profit
• A powerful NETWORK
• All subjects: STM, humanities,
social science, professional
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7. CrossRef’s Mission
to be a trusted collaborative
organization with broad community
connections; authoritative and
innovative in support of a persistent,
sustainable infrastructure for
scholarly communication.
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8. How we fulfill our mission:
! • Reference Linking
• Cited-By Linking
• CrossCheck Plagiarism
Detection
• CrossMark Version of Record
service
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9. Technical
Infrastructure
• Unique identification
• Persistent citation and
linking
• Managed system – no
broken links
• Content discoverable
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10. What’s in a name?
doi:10.1289/ehp.12265
doi:10.1289/ehp.12265
doi:10.1289/ehp.12265
http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.12265
http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1289%2Fehp.12265
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11. User clicks on User accesses
CrossRef DOI cited article in
reference link in Journal B
Journal A
Goehl TJ, Flanagin A, 2008. Enhancing the Quality
and Visibility of African Medical and Health
Journals. Environ Health Perspect 116:A514-
A515. http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.12265
DOI
directory
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12. 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
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14. 3,403 publishers and societies
46,254,389 content items with DOIs
24,116 journals
151,173 books
20,339 conference proceedings
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15. membership
• Represents 67 countries
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16. Members in Africa
• Ashdin Publishing
• Egyptian Journal of Surgery
• Hindawi Publishing Corporation
• Open Journals Publishing (African Online Scienti c Information
Systems, Ltd)
• National Inquiry Services Center (NISC)
• African Journals Online (AJOL)
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17. Affiliated Organizations
and Sponsoring
Publishers
• African Journals Online (AJOL)
• International Network for the Availability of
Scienti c Publications (INASP)
• Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association
(OASPA)
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18. Member Obligations
• Outbound reference linking
• Deposit all current journal articles
• Resolve CrossRef DOI con icts
• Update metadata and especially URLs
• Do not publicize CrossRef DOIs until links
are live
• Make plans for long term archiving
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19. • Fees waved for members countries in lower
and lower middle income categories as
defined by the World Bank
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21. Also provides the technical
infrastructure
• The DOI for persistence
• Integrates with the OpenURL
• CrossRef & content visibility: When works are
registered in the CrossRef database, thousands of
cross-linkers – publishers, scholars,
intermediaries, and libraries – automatically pick
up links to that content
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22. CrossRef implementation
• Deposit DOIs and metadata to enable
inbound linking
– As soon as content is registered in CrossRef, it
becomes visible for linking by other participants
• Create outbound links from references by
querying the CrossRef metadata database
– Adds value by improving user experience
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23. non-XML alternatives: Web deposit form
http://www.crossref.org/webDeposit/
• Manual DOI
registration,
for smaller
publishers
• System
builds XML
deposit le
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24. Simple-Text Query
http://www.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery/
• Free, non-XML alternative for
outbound reference linking
• A customrefXpressof Inera’s
eXtyles
version
®
• Parses unstructured XML
references into valid
• Returns matching DOIs for
those references
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32. 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.
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38. Manuscript
Triage Acceptance
Submission
Yes
No
Prior to acceptance?
Author? On Submission? Triage?
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39. Manuscript
Triage Acceptance
Submission
Yes
No
$£€¥
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40. 148 publishers
29 million content items indexed
55,000 titles
19,620 manuscripts checked per month
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41. Languages
Supported
Serbian
Chinese Finnish
(simplified and Slovak
French
traditional)
Slovenian
German
Japanese
Spanish
Hungarian
Thai
Swedish
Italian
Korean
Arabic
Norwegian
Catalan
(Bokmal, Greek
Croatian Nynorsk)
Hebrew
Czech Polish
Farsi
Danish Portuguese
Russian
Dutch Romanian
Turkish
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43. In Summary
• CrossRef provides infrastructure to enable
publishers to enhance their content and
services
• CrossRef services drive traffic to publishers
content
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44. • 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
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45. What’s in it for
publishers?
• No publisher is an island - collaboration and
connection is the key
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