Carol Anne Meyer's presentation to the annual meeting of the African Journal Partnership Project at the National Library of Medicine on April 29 2011
Text of CrossRef For African Journals
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2. CrossRef: Bene ts for Publishers in Africa Carol Anne Meyer
Marketing and Business Development CrossRef African Journal
Partnership Program Bethesda, Maryland 29 April 2011Wednesday, May
4, 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- prots, university
presses, OA publishers 57% non-prot A powerful NETWORK All
subjects: STM, humanities, social science, professionalWednesday,
May 4, 2011
7. CrossRefs Mission to be a trusted collaborative organization
with broad community connections; authoritative and innovative in
support of a persistent, sustainable infrastructure for scholarly
communication.Wednesday, May 4, 2011
8. How we fulll our mission: ! Reference Linking Cited-By
Linking CrossCheck Plagiarism Detection CrossMark Version of Record
serviceWednesday, May 4, 2011
9. Technical Infrastructure Unique identication Persistent
citation and linking Managed system no broken links Content
discoverableWednesday, May 4, 2011
10. Whats 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.12265Wednesday,
May 4, 2011
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 directoryWednesday, May 4,
2011
12. Business Infrastructure One agreement with CrossRef is a
linking agreement with all CrossRef participants Business Model
Neutral Powerful Network Eects value of network is proportional to
the square of the number of users of the systemWednesday, May 4,
2011
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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
proceedingsWednesday, May 4, 2011
15. membership Represents 67 countries 44Wednesday, May 4,
2011
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)Wednesday, May 4, 2011
17. Afliated Organizations and Sponsoring Publishers African
Journals Online (AJOL) International Network for the Availability
of Scienti c Publications (INASP) Open Access Scholarly Publishers
Association (OASPA)Wednesday, May 4, 2011
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 48Wednesday, May
4, 2011
19. Fees waved for members countries in lower and lower middle
income categories as dened by the World BankWednesday, May 4,
2011
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 52Wednesday, May 4,
2011
23. non-XML alternatives: Web deposit form
http://www.crossref.org/webDeposit/ Manual DOI registration, for
smaller publishers System builds XML deposit le 53Wednesday, May 4,
2011
24. Simple-Text Query http://www.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery/
Free, non-XML alternative for outbound reference linking A
customrefXpressof Ineras eXtyles version Parses unstructured XML
references into valid Returns matching DOIs for those
referencesWednesday, May 4, 2011
25. 1. Copy References from Original EHP ArticleWednesday, May
4, 2011
26. 2. Paste References into Simple Text Query FormWednesday,
May 4, 2011
27. Simple Text Query Returns DOIsWednesday, May 4, 2011
28. CrossRef Help: www.crossref.org/help 57Wednesday, May 4,
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31. Reciprocal Linking Photo by Joi ItoWednesday, May 4,
2011
32. CrossRef Cited-By Linking Whos Citing You? Discover how
your publications are being cited and incorporate DOI links to the
citing content into your online publication.Wednesday, May 4,
2011
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34. Technology Est. 1996 8,500 schools, colleges &
universities worldwideWednesday, May 4, 2011
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38. Manuscript Triage Acceptance Submission Yes No Prior to
acceptance? Author? On Submission? Triage?Wednesday, May 4,
2011
39. Manuscript Triage Acceptance Submission Yes No $
#Wednesday, May 4, 2011
40. 148 publishers 29 million content items indexed 55,000
titles 19,620 manuscripts checked per monthWednesday, May 4,
2011
41. Languages Supported Serbian Chinese Finnish (simplied 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 TurkishWednesday, May 4,
2011
42. Deterrence FactorWednesday, May 4, 2011
43. In Summary CrossRef provides infrastructure to enable
publishers to enhance their content and services CrossRef services
drive trac to publishers contentWednesday, May 4, 2011
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 contentWednesday, May 4,
2011
45. Whats in it for publishers? No publisher is an island -
collaboration and connection is the keyWednesday, May 4, 2011
46. Find out more... Reference Linking Nontechnical:
http://www.slideshare.net/CrossRef/nontechnical-introduction-to-
crossref-for-publishers-2010 Technical:
http://www.slideshare.net/CrossRef/bootcamp-tim-xed-2 Cited-By
Linking http://www.crossref.org/citedby.html CrossCheck
http://www.crossref.org./CrossCheckWednesday, May 4, 2011
47. Any Questions?Wednesday, May 4, 2011
48. Carol Anne Meyer [email protected]
http://www.crossref.org twitter: @CrossRefNews facebook:
http://facebook.com/CrossRefWednesday, May 4, 2011
