affiliate fees



2009 Affiliate Annual Membership Fee

Affiliate (Query Account)

Total Publishing Revenue < $1 mil $500
Total Publishing Revenue $1 - 10 mil $2,000
Total Publishing Revenue > $10 mil $10,000

Local Hosting*

Member - Partial (<30% of DOIs) $5,000
Member - Full $20,000
Affiliate - Partial (<30% of DOIs) $15,000
Affiliate - Full $50,000


*Local Hosts get a feed of CrossRef metadata and DOIs for incorporating in a local system.

2010 Affiliate Annual Membership Fees

Basic Affiliate*

Agent $2,000
Linking Solutions Partner $2,000
Vendor Alliance Program $2,000


*NEW: The Basic Affiliate category will encompass Agent, Linking Solutions Partner and our Vendor Alliance Program memberships. Our Linking Solutions Partner fee will decrease from $5,000 to $2,000.

Enhanced Affiliate (Query Account)*

Total Publishing Revenue < $1 mil $500
Total Publishing Revenue $1 - 10 mil $2,000
Total Publishing Revenue > $10 mil $10,000

*NEW: Starting in 2010 the Affiliate (Query Account) membership will be called the Enhanced Affiliate membership. The 2010 fee will be the same as in 2009.
CrossRef Metadata Services Affiliate
Total Publishing Revenue
< $1 mil
Total Publishing Revenue
$1 - 10 mil
Total Publishing Revenue
> $10 mil
% publisher participation
<50%
$2,500
$10,000
$30,000
51-75%
$2,750
$11,000
$55,000
76-100%
$3,000
$12,000
$60,000

2009 CrossRef Metadata Services Annual Membership Fees



2010 CrossRef Metadata Services Annual Membership Fees

CrossRef Metadata Services Affiliate*
Total Publishing Revenue
< $1 mil
$1 - 10 mil
> $10 mil
Basic License
Non-member (existing Affiliate Local Host)
$2,000
$10,000
$30,000
Basic License
Member (existing Member Local Host)
$1,000
$5,000
$15,000
Enhanced License
(existing CMS Affiliate)
$3,000
$15,000
$40,000

*NEW: As of 2010 the Local Host Affiliate membership will now be called
CrossRef Metadata Services Basic License. The existing CrossRef Metadata Services membership will be called CrossRef Metadata Services Enhanced License. The 2010 fees for both memberships will differ from 2009 fees.

Affiliate (Other)

Agent $2,000
Linking Solutions Partner $5,000


Background on Fees

CrossRef is a service run by Publishers International Linking Association, Inc. (PILA), an independent membership
organization comprised of publishers of original scholarly material. Fees are subject to change without notice.

Note: there is no charge to end-user (or publisher) for following a DOI link

*Notes on definition of "Total Publishing Revenue":

  • Total publishing revenue includes all publishing revenue from all the divisions of an organization (primary and secondary)
    for all types of activities (advertising, books, journals, databases, article charges, etc). For membership organizations,
    member dues allocated to subscriptions will be included in total publishing revenue.
  • The member is considered to be the largest legal entity rather than a division.
  • Membership fee billing for 2004 and forward will be done on a calendar year basis.
  • Members will self-categorize.

General Policies

  • Publishers must deposit metadata from all their online journals in the CrossRef system.
  • Before retrieving DOIs for references in articles, Members must deposit the article metadata in the CrossRef system.
    In other words, in order to link from an article, the metadata for that article must be deposited in the CrossRef system
    so that others can link to the article.
  • It is an obligation of CrossRef membership to link references in scholarly journals using DOIs.
  • Organizations with both primary and secondary divisions only need to pay one annual fee based on total publishing revenue.
  • Secondary divisions affiliated with primary-division publishers will not be allowed to retrieve DOIs unless the
    primary-division publisher deposits metadata for its journals.
  • Members and non-members may "cache" retrieved DOIs (i.e. store them in their local systems).
  • Members may appoint Agents to act on their behalf with CrossRef (registering metadata, looking up DOIs).
    An Agent can represent any number of members.


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