Vanessa Fairhurst provides an introduction to Crossref, including an overview ofnour membership and governance. Presented at Crossref LIVE local Hannover, 27th June 2018.

2.
09:30 – 10:00 Welcome and Crossref overview
10:00 – 10:30 Getting started with registering content with Crossref
10.30 - 11.00 Crossref metadata - how it can be used & why good metadata is important
11:00 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 12:00 The benefits of using Crossref metadata for libraries and scientists (Najko Jahn, Göttingen State and University Library)
12:00 – 12:30 How do DataCite and Crossref support research data sharing? (Britta Dreyer, Datacite)
12.30 - 12.45 Organisational Identifiers
12:45 – 13:45 Lunch
13:45 – 15:00 Introduction to Crossref services:
Reference linking & Cited-By
Funding data
Crossmark
Similarity Check
15:00 – 15:30 Break
15:30 – 16.00 Crossref Event Data and other new services
15:45 – 16:30 Community Initiatives inc. membership trends and current projects
16.30 – 17.00 Final Q&A and close

3. Crossref makes research outputs easy to find, cite, link, and
assess.
We’re a not-for-profit membership organization that exists to
make scholarly communications better. We rally the
community; tag and share metadata; run an open
infrastructure; play with technology; and make tools and
services—all to help put scholarly content in context.
It’s as simple—and as complicated—as that.

4. Our truths
• Come one, come all
• One member, one vote
• Smart alone, brilliant together
• Love metadata, love technology
• What you see, what you get
• Here today, here tomorrow

6. Governance and Committees
• Advisory Groups and Committees
• 16 member board, cross section of international
publishers
• One member, one vote, including members
represented by a sponsor - each of you has a vote
• Board elections each November

7. Board members
• Chair - Paul Peters, Hindawi
• Treasurer - Scott Delmas, ACM
• Jason Wilde, AIP Publishing
• Helen King, BMJ
• Mark Patterson, eLIFE
• Chris Shillum, Elsevier
• Liz Allen, F1000
• Duncan Campbell, John Wiley &
Sons
• Amy Brand, MIT Press
• Marin Dacos, OpenEdition
• Ian Bannerman, Informa UK
• Graham McCann, IOP Publishing
• John Shaw, SAGE
• Wim van der Stelt, Springer
Nature
• Eleonora Dagiene, VGTU Press
• Abel Packer, SciELO

8. Crossref overview
• Over 10,000 member organizations
• Metadata store of over 97 million scholarly content items
• A DOI is just the start - We offer a wide array of services
to ensure that scholarly research metadata is registered,
linked, and distributed.
• We preserve the metadata we receive and make it
available via our open APIs and Search.

9. Who uses Crossref?
• Publishing vendors
• Peer review systems
• Reference manager systems
• Lab & diagnostics suppliers
• Info management systems
• Educational tools
• Data analytics systems
• Literature discovery services
• Registration Agencies
• Publishers
• Funders
• Institutions
• Archives & repositories
• Research councils
• Data centres
• Professional networks
• Patent offices
• Indexing services

10. Why do publishers join Crossref?
• To help get their content discovered
• Show people where their content is located and
update that if/when the content moves
• Drive more traffic to publications
• Turn references into hyperlinks
• Find out who is using their content
• Participate in other collaborative services

11. Crossref Members and Affiliates by Year

12. New Members 2017
0
300
600
900
1200 Sponsoring
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Sponsored
O
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Sponsoring
O
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Sponsored
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(Publishers)
Libraries
62
1044
715
824

14. >97,000,000
content items

15. • Journals
• Books
• Conference proceedings
• Standards
• Technical reports
• Working Papers
• Theses and dissertations
• Components (figures, tables)
• Datasets (supplementary data)
• Databases
• Posted content (includes preprints)
• Peer Reviews

16. Databases
2%
Components
3%
Reports
1%
Standards
1%
Conference Proceedings
5%
Books
16%
Journals
72%
Registered Content

17. What are we up to?
• Outreach & marketing teams growing
• More in-person events
• Strengthening links with broader community
• Accelerating development
• Launching Ambassador Program

19. Soon
Event Data
Participation reports
Peer Review Reports
Metadata Manager

20. Thank you for
joining us today!