Basics for New Members and Individuals New to CrossRef

•9:00-10:00 Boot Camp: An Introduction to CrossRef

•10:00-10:20 Cited-by Linking

•10:20-10:40 CrossCheck

Boot CampAn Introduction to

Carol Anne MeyerPatricia FeeneyAnna Tolwinska

CrossRef Workshops15 November 2011

Cambridge, MA

This Morning

•Business Overview

–Carol Meyer

•Technical Overview

–Patricia Feeney

•Resources for Small Publishers

–Anna Tolwinska

Business Overview

•Why publishers join CrossRef

•What is a DOI?

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Why publishers join CrossRef

• To get persistent IDs for their content

• To drive more traffic to their content

• To turn their references into hyperlinks

• To pull in cited-by links (what cites this?)

• To participate in new collaborative services

From roadblock…toEasy, reliable navigation

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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:

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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

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DOI suffixes may be

•Opaque

•Meaningful

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

replacesdoi:10.xxxx/DOIsuffixgoeshere

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

• DataCite

• Entertainment Identifier Registry (EDIR)

• mEDRA

• OPOCE (Office des publications EU)

• R. R. Bowker

• Wanfang Data

• CrossRef

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

is the largest Registration Agency

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Handle-DOI-CrossRef relationship

Handlegeneral-purpose naming service

Requires customized solution

DOIorganizational structure for persistence

CrossRefprogrammatic linking and discovery service

Easy for publisher to automate

• DOIs for x-pub linking

• Develops and maintains the DOI standard

• Develops and maintains the Handle system upon which the DOI executes

CrossRef/DOI Community

Services

• Cross-publisher reference linking

• Cross-publisher Cited-by linking

• Cross-publisher metadata feeds to CMS Affiliates

• Cross-publisher plagiarism screening

• Cross-publisher update service

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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

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PUBLISHERS AND SOCIETIES

3637 200,238

BOOKS

JOURNAL TITLES

25,901CONFERENCE PROCEEDING

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21,858

50 million CrossRef DOIs!

Content beyond journals…

•Books

•Standards

•Proceedings

• Images

•Figures

•Datasets

•Working papers

•Dissertations

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 67 countries

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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 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

• Make plans for long term archiving

• Pay bills on time

• Update contact information

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Thank you!

cmeyer@crossref.org