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Patrick Polischuk
2022 May 13

2022 public data file of more than 134 million metadata records now available

In 2020 we released our first public data file, something we’ve turned into an annual affair supporting our commitment to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). We’ve just posted the 2022 file, which can now be downloaded via torrent like in years past. We aim to publish these in the first quarter of each year, though as you may notice, we’re a little behind our intended schedule. The reason for this delay was that we wanted to make critical new metadata fields available, including resource URLs and titles with markup.

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Ed Pentz
2022 May 12

Announcing our new Director of Product: Rachael Lammey

Unfortunately, Bryan Vickery has moved onto pastures new. I would like to thank him for his many contributions at Crossref and we all wish him well. I’m now pleased to announce that Rachael Lammey will be Crossref’s new Director of Product starting on Monday, May 16th. Rachael’s skills and experience are perfectly suited for this role. She has been at Crossref since 2012 and has deep knowledge and experience of all things Crossref: our mission; our members; our culture; and our services.

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Fabienne Michaud
2022 May 10

Similarity Check: what’s new with iThenticate v2?

Since we announced last September the launch of a new version of iThenticate, a number of you have upgraded and become familiar with iThenticate v2 and its new and improved features which include: A faster, more user-friendly and responsive interface A preprint exclusion filter, giving users the ability to identify content on preprint servers more easily A new “red flag” feature that signals the detection of hidden text such as text/quotation marks in white font, or suspicious character replacement A private repository available for browser users, allowing them to compare against their previous submissions to identify duplicate submissions within your organisation A content portal, helping users check how much of their own published content has been successfully indexed, self-diagnose and fix the content that has failed to be indexed in iThenticate.

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Vanessa Fairhurst
2022 April 14

Do you want to be a Crossref Ambassador?

A re-cap We kicked off our Ambassador Program in 2018 after consultation with our members, who told us they wanted greater support and representation in their local regions, time zones, and languages. We also recognized that our membership has grown and changed dramatically over recent years and that it is likely to continue to do so. We now have over 16,000 members across 140 countries. As we work to understand what’s to come and ensure that we are meeting the needs of such an expansive community, having trusted local contacts we can work closely with is key to ensuring we are more proactive in engaging with new audiences and supporting existing members.

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Creating a landing page

As soon your content is registered with Crossref, users will be able to retrieve identifiers and create links with them. Crossref DOIs must resolve to a landing (or response) page that you maintain.

A landing page is a web page that provides further information to someone who has clicked on a DOI link to help them confirm that they are in the right place.

Landing pages for published content

The landing page for published content should contain:

  • A full bibliographic citation so that the user can verify they have been delivered to the correct item
  • The DOI displayed as a URL - learn more about our DOI display guidelines
  • A way to access the full-text of the content: access to the full-text is still controlled by the publisher, so this access could be via a login or a paywall. However, the landing page itself must be accessible to everyone.

A DOI can resolve to the HTML full-text of the content, and if this page includes the criteria above, a separate landing page is not necessary. It’s not good practice to link directly to a PDF however, as it will start downloading when the DOI is clicked. Many Crossref journal DOIs resolve to an abstract.

Here’s an example landing page for published content: https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.1.000354

And a little more for preprints

As well as the criteria above, a preprint landing page should also prominently identify the content as a preprint and include a link to any AAM or VOR. This information should be above the fold.

Landing pages for grants

The landing pages for grants should contain:

  • Information about the grant so the user can verify they’ve been delivered to the correct item
  • The DOI displayed as a URL - learn more about our DOI display guidelines.

Here are two example landing pages for grants: https://doi.org/10.37717/220020589 and https://doi.org/10.35802/107769.

Page owner: Isaac Farley   |   Last updated 2021-November-08