For the third year in a row, Crossref hosted a roundtable on research integrity prior to the Frankfurt book fair. This year the event looked at Crossmark, our tool to display retractions and other post-publication updates to readers.
Since the start of 2024, we have been carrying out a consultation on Crossmark, gathering feedback and input from a range of members. The roundtable discussion was a chance to check and refine some of the conclusions we’ve come to, and gather more suggestions on the way forward.
In our previous blog post in this series, we explained why no metadata matching strategy can return perfect results. Thankfully, however, this does not mean that it’s impossible to know anything about the quality of matching. Indeed, we can (and should!) measure how close (or far) we are from achieving perfection with our matching. Read on to learn how this can be done!
How about we start with a quiz? Imagine a database of scholarly metadata that needs to be enriched with identifiers, such as ORCIDs or ROR IDs.
We’re in year two of the Resourcing Crossref for Future Sustainability (RCFS) research. This report provides an update on progress to date, specifically on research we’ve conducted to better understand the impact of our fees and possible changes.
Crossref is in a good financial position with our current fees, which haven’t increased in 20 years. This project is seeking to future-proof our fees by:
Making fees more equitable Simplifying our complex fee schedule Rebalancing revenue sources In order to review all aspects of our fees, we’ve planned five projects to look into specific aspects of our current fees that may need to change to achieve the goals above.
On behalf of the Nominating Committee, I’m pleased to share the slate of candidates for the 2024 board election.
Each year we do an open call for board interest. This year, the Nominating Committee received 53 submissions from members worldwide to fill four open board seats.
We maintain a balanced board of 8 large member seats and 8 small member seats. Size is determined based on the organization’s membership tier (small members fall in the $0-$1,650 tiers and large members in the $3,900 - $50,000 tiers).
The record registration form can be used to deposit metadata for your records. You do not need any knowledge of XML to use it. You can download your records to your local machine and re-upload them to the form later to make edits to the metadata. You can also save partial records to be used as templates in the future.
The form currently supports journal articles and grants, but we are planning to add support for additional record types in future.
How to use the record registration form
Start at the record registration form and choose to create a new record or upload a record you’ve already created using this form. If this is the first time you’ve used this form, you’ll choose New Record.
Create a new record
Select the type of record you wish to create, then give the record a name. This is the name for the file you’ll download to your computer for future edits or use - so make it something descriptive and useful which will help you identify the file in future. This name doesn’t get deposited with Crossref or appear in any metadata.
Add the metadata associated with your record. Some fields are required to be filled out in order to submit your record, while others are optional. If you are submitting a journal article, you can find links to our documentation in the form for more information on what each field means.
At any point while filling out the form, you can use the download button to save your record to your local computer for future edits. The form will download as a .json file, with the name you gave it in the beginning.
Submit your record
Click Submit at the bottom of the form, and enter your Crossref account credentials. The submission will be made immediately and a success message will appear on the screen. You can also download the record from this page.
If there is a problem with your submission, you will see an error message appear. Go to the documentation for tips on how to troubleshoot common errors from our deposit system.
Load a saved record
If you’ve used the record registration form before to create a record, you can upload your saved copy to make edits and redeposit. Start at the record registration form and choose Load Record. Select the appropriate .json file from your computer and click Open. Note: the record you load must be a .json file previously downloaded from the record registration form.
Once the form is loaded, you can make edits to your record and submit your record to update the metadata. You can also download a new version to your local machine to repeat the process later.
Create a template
You can partially complete a form and download it for use as a template in the future. For example, if you register multiple grants, your depositor information (name, email address) and funder information (funder name, funder ID) are likely to be the same across all submissions. So you might complete just those parts of the form, download the record, and upload it each time you need to submit a new grant record.
Page owner: Lena Stoll | Last updated 2024-September-23
