2. <Metadata>
• What is Crossref metadata
• Who uses Crossref metadata services
• How Crossref provides this content
3. Crossref Metadata Services
• Many discovery services rely on bibliographic
metadata from publishers
• An increasing number of services are using
citation analysis
• Publishers have different, non-standard formats
• It is difficult to locate metadata for book chapters
• Publishers have an interest in increasing the
discoverability of their content
4. CrossRef metadata is available for
thousands of publishers and millions of
scholarly documents in the same XML
format
5. Metadata services users
Can locally host Crossref metadata (including
many references)
Can use Crossref metadata for citation
analysis
6. Who is it for?
• Organizations that want to supplement
metadata from other sources
• Organizations providing citation metrics
• Document delivery providers
• Discovery services
• Search engines
• Content aggregators
7. Optional opt-out
To make sure CrossRef Affiliates receive your
references, make sure not to opt-out of
references
(By default you are opted-in)
8. Users include:
Academic Analytics, LLC
Academic Medical Center
Airiti, Inc.
Altmetric, LLC
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Cambia
Colwiz Limited
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC)
DeepDyve, Inc.
EasyBib.com (ImagineEasy Solutions)
Elsevier, Inc.
EMBL-EBI
Ex Libris Ltd.
Global Digital Central
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Instytut Bioinfobank Sp. z o.o.
Labtiva, Inc.
mapegy GmbH
MESUR
OCLC
Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL)
PhilPapers Foundation
Plum Analytics
ProQuest Information & Learning
PTFS Europe
Reprints Desk
Research Square
ScholarMate, Ltd.
Science-Metrix
Sciencescape, Inc.
Sunmedia
Suweco, CZ
Symplectic, Ltd.
Talis Education Limited
Technical Information Center of Denmark (DTU Library)
The Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies
Third Iron
UberResearch
9.
10. • Search, filter, facet, sample Crossref metadata
• Free to use
• Do whatever you want with the data
• Code publicly available: http://github.com/CrossRef
11. Titles, authors, ISSNs, ISBNs
Basic metadata
Journal articles, conference proceedings, data, standards
Funding Information
Funder identifiers, award numbers
License Information
License URIs (NISO ALI)
Full-text locations
URIs direct to full-text articles (used in TDM)
ORCIDs
Significant updates
Retractions, corrections
Publishers Crossref
12. What are people doing with it?
• Search services (including Crossref’s funding and
metadata searches)
• Bibliography / PDF library management tools
• Reporting on funding activities, publishing
• activities, author activities
• Ingest of scholarly metadata (OAI-PMH replacement)
and metadata lookup
• Locating full-texts for content mining
13.
14. Using it for research
http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2323
18. api.crossref.org
doi.crossref.org
oai.crossref.org
• also known as our REST-API
• used retrieve data for specific sets of DOIs, based on resources and filters defined by
the API syntax
• no login required and no fee
• SLA based service to be available in 2017 (for a fee)
• also known as our XML-API
• legacy Crossref query logic which supports reference and Cited-by linking
• login required, no fee, some requests types limited to members only
• supports Crossref’s Metadata Service
• bulk downloading of lots (up to the entire) Crossref metadata repository
• login required and there is a fee
• returns deposited references for DOIs (with an opt-out caveat)