CrossRef DOIs for African Partner

JournalsCarol Anne Meyer

Marketing and Business Development

CrossRef

African Journal Partnership ProgramSan Antonio, TX

6 May 2014

A not-for-profit trade association of global scholarly publishers

Improving scholarly

communication through

community collaboration

6-Word Mission

We have two offices:Lynnfield, MA and Oxford, UK

LinkingReference Linking Cited-by Linking

Discovery and DeliveryCrossRef Metadata Services Bibliographic Management

CrossRef Metadata Search Document Delivery

Multiple Resolution Link Resolvers

CrossRef APIs

EvaluatingCrossCheck Article Level Metrics

CrossMark PreScore

FundRef

CollaboratingLinked Data Text and Data Mining

FundRef NISO OA Indicator

Threaded Publications Journal Article Tag Set (JATS)

Enables

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CrossRef Has 1950 Members, Representing 4627 Publishers

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Members Come from 81 Countries

Member Publishersin Africa = 19

• Academic Journals• Agial Publishing House• AOSIS Open Journals• Ashdin Publishing• Biomath Forum• Clinics Cardive Publishing• Health and Medical

Publishing Group• Hindawi Publishing

Corporation• Infomesr• International Research

Journals• Mediterranean Journal of

Chemistry• Michael Joanna

Publications• Pan African Medical Journal• Science Journal

Publications• Stellenbosch University• The American University in

Cairo Press• University of the Western

Cape Library Service• Wilolud Journals• World Agroforestry Centre

• African Journals Online (AJOL)• BioOne• International Network for the

Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP)

• Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)

Sponsors

We generate more than a billion annual “clicks” to our member publishers’ sites

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Member Obligations

•Outbound reference linking

•Deposit all current journal articles

•Resolve CrossRef DOI conflicts

•Update metadata and especially URLs

•Do not publicize CrossRef DOIs until links are live

•Make plans for long term archiving

How can AJPP Journals get

CrossRef DOIs?• Through sponsors like AJOL (uses

PKP/OJS)

• Through ScholarOne

• Through Web Deposit Form

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non-XML alternatives: Web deposit formhttp://www.crossref.org/webDeposit/

•Manual DOI registration, for smaller publishers

•System builds XML deposit file

• What if you have your journal on

– Your own site

– AJOL

– BioLine

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One ArticleOne DOI!

Multiple Resolution

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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

Reciprocal Linking

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Simple-Text Queryhttp://www.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery/

• Free, non-XML alternative for outbound reference linking

•A custom version of Inera’s eXtyles® refXpress

•Parses unstructured references into valid XML

•Returns matching DOIs for those references

Now we have 90 affiliates and 2045 libraries

Our Community Includes Affiliates and Libraries

Library Affiliatesin Africa = 21

• Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)

• Maina Soko Military Hospital Library

• Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences

• Nelson Mandela Metropolitian University

• North-West University • Rhodes University• SEALS Library Consortium• South East Academic

Libraries System• St. Thomas Aquinas' Major

Seminary (STAMS)• Strathmore Research and

Consultancy Centre• UKZN Libraries • Unisa

• Universidade Eduardo Mondlane

• University of Capetown• University of Fort Hare

Library• University of Johannesburg

Library• University of Livingstonia

Library• University of Port Elizabeth• University of Pretoria,

Department of Library Sciences

• University of the Western Cape

• University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

83 Non-Publisher Affiliates–query the CrossRef system for DOIs and metadata

–get bulk updates of metadata

–act on behalf of members

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Services; 20

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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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TechnologyEst. 1996

8,500 schools, colleges & universities worldwide

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Polish

Portuguese

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Languages Supported

Deterrence Factor

Sponsors can provide CrossCheck Plagiarism

Screening for AJPP Journals

• Sponsor will pay discounted combined annual fee

• BUT, we have to talk with iParadigms about fee waivers for per-manuscript checking fees

• 75 cents per manuscript for fewer than 2000 documents

http://www.crossref.org/02publishers/20pub_fees.html#crosscheck

But, remember the CrossRef Rules

• You have to be assigning CrossRef DOIs before you can participate in any optional services like CrossRef

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

Find out more...Webinars

– Introduction to CrossRefhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRqr4D-wflc&noredirect=1Technical:

– Tools for Small Publishershttp://www.slideshare.net/CrossRef/barcelona-2014-crossref-tools-for-small-publishers

Web Pages

– CrossRef Cited-by Linkinghttp://www.crossref.org/citedby.html

– CrossCheck Plagiarism Screeninghttp://www.crossref.org./CrossCheck

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Any Questions?

Carol Anne Meyercmeyer@crossref.org

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