Metadata, Open Access and More: Crossref presentation
- 2. 13:00-13:15 Introductions
13:15-14:15 Love your metadata: Crossref overview, updates and new tools for publishers,
Rachael Lammey, Head of Community Outreach, Crossref
14:15-14.45 Best practice for data citation, Jez Cope, Data Lead, British Library
14.45 -15:15 Afternoon tea
15:15 -15:45 Legal deposit requirements, Ian Cooke, Head of Contemporary British Collections
& Andrew Davis, Legal Deposit Publisher Relations Manager, British Library
15:45 -16:30 Open access workshop, Tom Mowlam, Director of Operations, Ubiquity Press and
Dimity Flanagan, Scholarly Communications Lead, British Library
16.30 -16.45 Discussion
16:45-17:00 Close
Agenda
- 3. Open Access - how to & impact for small publishers
bulk upload of DOIs getting corrections done smoothly
metadata
responsibilities of a small publisher
Crossref roadmap - what’s next?
DOI allocation process
cross-indexing with other bibliographic databasesusing eContent for legal deposits
optimum landing-page metadata
relationship metadata for data citations (Scholix, Event Data, DataCite)
making sure items are indexed
implications of PlanS for small publishers
best practices for distributing book metadata to increase coverage/online visibility
content registration methods
tips and advice - implementing DOIs for student and staff led journals
depositing translated resources
issues in populating affiliations and post-embargo licenses with Crossref
- 5. Crossref makes research outputs easy to find, cite,
link, assess, and reuse.
We’re a not-for-profit membership organization that
exists to make scholarly communications better.
Mission
- 6. • Over 11,000 member organizations
• Metadata store of over 100 million scholarly content items
• A DOI is just the start - We offer a wide array of services
to ensure that scholarly research metadata is registered,
linked, and distributed.
• We preserve the metadata we receive and make it
available via our open APIs and Search.
Crossref overview
- 8. Why do publishers join Crossref?
• To help get their content discovered
• Show people where their content is located and update that if/
when the content moves
• Drive more traffic to publications
• Find out who is using their content
• Participate in collaborative services
- 9. First steps
1. We send you a prefix and login
2. Review different methods for registering your metadata
- 10. Your prefix
• One prefix may be used for all content
• New titles may be added at any time
• No limit to the number of DOIs created, also no
minimum number is required.
10.444410.55555
- 12. Your landing page
• A full bibliographic citation so that the user can verify they have been
delivered to the correct item
• The DOI displayed as a URL, per display guidelines https://doi.org/
10.5555/12345678
• A way to access full text: access to full text is completely controlled
by the publisher but the landing page must be accessible to everyone.
- 15. metadata
everything, including…
author names, ORCIDs, affiliations, article titles,
ISSN, ISBN, pages, issue #, volume #s, dates,
identifiers
- 16. more metadata
such as …
reference lists, funding data, ORCIDs, license data, clinical trial
numbers, errata, retractions, updates and more through our
Crossmark service, JATS-formatted abstracts, relationships
between items…
- 18. Ways to deposit metadata
• Upload XML file (https://doi.crossref.org)
• The manual web deposit form
(https://apps.crossref.org/webdeposit)
• OJS Crossref plugin
• Metadata Manager (currently for journal content)
- 26. metadata record
funding
data bad data @#&$*@citations
Submission queue
All content registration
submissions are added to
the same queue
Most are processed
quickly but if not, you can
view your spot in the
queue
- 27. Success! Your content now has
persistent identifiers and a Crossref
metadata record
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hooray!
Failure…your content has not been
registered.
- 28. Metadata should be…
• accurate
• complete
• up to date
https://www.crossref.org/faqs/updating-metadata/
- 35. Sharing metadata - benefits
• Greater discovery of your content
• Inclusion in discovery services
• Only your metadata is shared – not your full text
- 36. Content doesn’t exist in a vacuum
• Publishers are increasingly depositing relationship metadata
• This links:
• Articles and their underlying data
• Preprints and accepted manuscripts/versions of record
• Translated content
• Articles and reviews
- 42. Where to find help
• Help documentation: http://support.crossref.org
• Crossref technical support: email support@crossref.org
• Webinars: https://www.crossref.org/webinars/
• Other questions: member@crossref.org