Small Publisher Tools

Karl WardPrincipal R&D Engineer

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● BIG! Commercial publishers, societies, university presses

● Greater than $1,000,000 in publishing revenue● CrossRef services built for this size of member● But they account for only 18% of CrossRef members

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'Small' Publishers● 82% of CrossRef members fit into our lowest membership

tier by publishing revenue● Nearly all new CrossRef members fall into this category,

and are often:– Small publishers, sometimes a single journal– Open access– From BRICS / low or middle income countries– Using PKP's Open Journal Platform– Having difficulty integrating CrossRef services

CrossRef's goal is to be a trusted collaborative organization with broad community connections; authoritative and innovative in support of a persistent, sustainable infrastructure for scholarly communication.

CrossRef's general purpose is to promote the development and cooperative use of new and innovative technologies to speed and

facilitate scholarly research. CrossRef's specific mandate is to be the citation linking backbone for all scholarly information in electronic form. CrossRef is a collaborative reference linking service that functions as a sort of digital switchboard. It holds no full text content, but rather effects linkages through CrossRef Digital Object Identifiers (CrossRef DOI), which are tagged to article metadata supplied by the participating publishers. The end result is an efficient, scalable linking system through which a researcher can click on a reference citation in a journal and access the cited article.

Why should we care?

There is a two-tier scholarly communication ecosystem

A DOI enables servicesA DOI makes content discoverable

A DOI makes content visible

Without DOIs, journal articles are invisible

Why should we care?

Selfish Reasons

For big publishers: DOI links drive traffic to their content

For CrossRef:CrossRef will loose its tax exempt status if it

discriminates by serving only part of the scholarly publishing industry

OJS and Small Publishers

● About 7,000 journals are hosted by OJS● Roughly 400 CrossRef members host journals

on OJS● A good target for integration improvements● We want to make it easy for OJS publishers to

become CrossRef members and participate in CrossRef services

OJS CrossRef Plugin● Automatically deposit article metadata and register DOIs with

CrossRef– No more manual XML export and import– Deposits full-text links and license URIs for CrossRef TDM– Funding information for FundRef, abstracts and CrossMark coming

soon● Started collaboration at OJS hackathon, Vancouver back in March● Available in OJS 2.4.5 onwards● Launched 18th September

Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

Ankara Medical Journal Acta Medica Anatolia

Associação Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação em Turismo

(ANPTUR)

Faculty of Agriculture of Ankara University

Barış Araştırmaları ve Çatışma Çözümleri Dergisi

Bozok Medical Journal Rivista degli Istituti Storici dell'Emilia Romagna in Rete

Universidad Distrital Francisco Jose de Caldas

DERİM - Batı Akdeniz Tarımsal Araştırma Enstitüsü

Journal of the Faculty of Forestry – Istanbul University

Galatasaray UniversityFaculty of Communication

İlköğretim Online Journal of Experimental and Clinical Medicine

Journal of Contemporary Medicine

Kafkas Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi

Zeynep Kamil Tıp Bülteni Lepidus Tecnologia

Alluvium Monthly Review Foundation Philippine Association of Institutions for Research (PAIR)

Polish Botanical Society Sakarya ÜNİVERSİTESİFen Bilimleri Enstitüsü Dergisi

Ankara Üniversitesi SBF Dergisi

Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education

International Journal of Human Sciences

UMP Press

Members Using OJS Plugin

Cost Implications for BRICS publishers

Country Annual Fees (PPP / GDP adjusted)

UK $448

Lithuania $859

Russia $965

Brazil $1,379

China $1,931

Egypt $2,487

India $4,436

Uganda $12,626

Zimbabwe $32,830

Average annual fee + deposit fees for a small publisher: $448(assuming 60 DOIs registered annually)

Sponsoring Entities● Waive fees via sponsoring entity agreements,

such as with INASP and OASPA● New partnership with PKP announced 18th

September– Fees waived for OJS journals in World Bank Low-

income Countries (LIC) and some Lower-middle-income Countries (LMC)

– Contact PKP to find out how to sign up

Eligible Countries under PKP / CrossRef Fee Waiver

Afghanistan Central African Republic

Gambia Liberia Niger Sudan

Bangladesh Chad Guinea Madagascar Pakistan Tajikistan

Benin Comoros Guinea-Bassau Malawi Rwanda Tanzania

Congo, Democratic Republic

Haiti Mali Sao Tome and Principe

Togo Burkina Faso

Cote d'Ivoire Kenya Mauritania Senegal Uganda Burundi

Djibouti Korea, Democratic Republic

Mozambique Sierra Leone Yemen Republic

Cambodia

Eritrea Kyrgyz Republic

Myanmar Somalia Zambia Cameroon

Ethiopia LAO PDR Nepal South Sudan Zimbabwe

CrossRef Services and Small Publishers

● CrossRef membership obligations – Display linked references on article landing pages– Deposit metadata and register DOIs with CrossRef– Content archiving

● CrossRef Cited-by requires deposit of outbound references

● Facilitate deposit, linking and display of citations

1. Extract Reference List

2. Match to DOIs

3. Deposit with CrossRef

Article PDF

Display linked referencesfrom CrossRef metadata on article landing page

APIs

● Extract citations from PDFs● Depositing PDF citations with CrossRef● Searching CrossRef metadata● Matching citation text to DOIs

api.crossref.org

Next Steps

● Extend OJS plugin to support funding information (FundRef), CrossMark

● Extend depositor to support easy deposit of license and full-text links for non-OJS users

Acknowledgements

● People at PKP– Brian Owen– Juan Pablo Alperin– James MacGregor– Božana Bokan

Thank you

@karlward #crossref14

Karl WardPrincipal R&D Engineer