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CrossRef: Bene!ts for Publishers
in AfricaCarol Anne Meyer
Marketing and Business Development
CrossRef
African Journal Partnership ProgramBethesda, Maryland
29 April 2011
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• 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-profits, university presses, OA publishers –57% non-profit
• A powerful NETWORK
• All subjects: STM, humanities, social science, professional
Strategic .org
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CrossRef’s Mission
to be a trusted collaborative organization with broad community connections; authoritative and innovative in support of a persistent, sustainable infrastructure for scholarly communication.
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How we fulfill our mission:
• Reference Linking
• Cited-By Linking
• CrossCheck Plagiarism Detection
• CrossMark Version of Record service
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Technical Infrastructure
• Unique identification
• Persistent citation and linking
• Managed system – no broken links
• Content discoverable
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What’s in a name?
doi:10.1289/ehp.12265
http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1289%2Fehp.12265
doi:10.1289/ehp.12265
doi:10.1289/ehp.12265
http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.12265
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User clicks on CrossRef DOI
reference link in Journal A
DOI directory
User accesses cited article in
Journal B
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
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Business Infrastructure
• One agreement with CrossRef is a linking agreement with all CrossRef participants
• Business Model Neutral
• Powerful Network Effects – value of network is proportional to the square of the number of users of the system
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3,403 publishers and societies
46,254,389 content items with DOIs
24,116 journals
151,173 books
20,339 conference proceedings
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membership
•Represents 67 countries
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• 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)
Members in Africa
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• African Journals Online (AJOL)• International Network for the Availability of Scienti!c Publications (INASP) • Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)
Affiliated Organizations and Sponsoring
Publishers
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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
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• Fees waved for members countries in lower and lower middle income categories as defined by the World Bank
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Photo :Ina Centaur
• 3,390 publishers 40,093,499 articles
CrossRef Journal Deposits
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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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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
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non-XML alternatives: Web deposit formhttp://www.crossref.org/webDeposit/
•Manual DOI registration, for smaller publishers
•System builds XML deposit !le
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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
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1. Copy References from Original EHP Article
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2. Paste References into Simple Text Query Form
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Simple Text Query Returns DOIs
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CrossRef Help: www.crossref.org/help
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Reciprocal Linking
Photo by Joi Ito
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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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Technology
Est. 1996
8,500 schools, colleges & universities worldwide
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Triage
Yes
Acceptance
No
ManuscriptSubmission
On Submission? Triage?Prior to acceptance?
Author?
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Triage
Yes
Acceptance
No
ManuscriptSubmission
$£€¥
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148 publishers
29 million content items indexed
55,000 titles
19,620 manuscripts checked per month
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Chinese (simplified and traditional)
Japanese
Thai
Korean
Catalan
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Norwegian (Bokmal, Nynorsk)
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Serbian
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish
Swedish
Arabic
Greek
Hebrew
Farsi
Russian
Turkish
Languages Supported
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Deterrence Factor
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In Summary
• CrossRef provides infrastructure to enable publishers to enhance their content and services
• CrossRef services drive traffic to publishers content
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• 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
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What’s in it for publishers?
• No publisher is an island - collaboration and connection is the key
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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-fixed-2
• Cited-By Linking
http://www.crossref.org/citedby.html
• CrossCheck
http://www.crossref.org./CrossCheck
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Any Questions?
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Carol Anne [email protected]
http://www.crossref.orgtwitter: @CrossRefNews
facebook: http://facebook.com/CrossRef
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