In an ongoing effort to make more of our operations transparent, we have decided to start sharing summaries of our board meetings on the blog. We already post our board resolutions, but the summaries will give a bit more information on what the board discusses that may or may not show up on the list of resolutions.
We do observe the Chatham House Rule for our board discussions, so we won’t disclose who says what, and there will still be executive sessions that discuss confidential matters that we can’t share. But those discussions constitute a minority of the time we spend together, so the summaries will cover much of what the board discusses.
Let’s start with our recent meeting in January, which is online and lasts one hour.
The January meeting is held primarily to conduct board business at the start of the board term.
The board conducted elections for this year’s board leadership, and approved each of the following positions:
The board then turned to review and adopt the minutes from the November board meeting, December board meeting, and October executive committee meeting.
The board discussed a proposal to update the financial authorization approval levels, a set of guidelines established by the board to define the limits on the approval of expenses that are part of Crossref’s Financial and Accounting Operating Policies. The board adopted changes to the policy that would bring it in line with the scale of Crossref’s business operations.
Ed Pentz gave a brief overview of what the board can expect at the 2026 board meetings and reviewed topics that will be discussed at each meeting.
The board next meets in early March.
2026 February 03
A spotlight on our community in Indonesia
2026 January 28
Insights from a roundtable on author affiliation metadata
2026 January 22
