Latest blog posts

2026 August 10

Share your feedback on the new Crossref Member Practices

In December 2026, we plan to publish new Crossref Member Practices which will set out the standards we expect all Crossref members to meet. From August to October 2026 we are consulting with our members on a draft of these Member Practices. This blog provides the background to this, and explains how you can share your views.

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2026 August 06

Building Trust through Metadata: a recap of the Crossref learning series

The Crossref community in India is as diverse as the region that it represents, comprising 1605 members, 11 sponsoring organisations, and 5 ambassadors, who between them cover the length and breadth of this country. Between November 2025 and March 2026, we organised three webinars focused on supporting this community with best metadata and publishing practices. We collaborated with the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) to embed understanding of metadata’s role in the greater context of publishing integrity.

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2026 July 20

Why PID strategies need more than PIDs: our first position paper

PID strategies are being written around the world right now, and the decisions being made will shape the scholarly record for decades. After 25 years running open scholarly infrastructure—now on behalf of 25,000 members in 167 countries—Crossref has an informed perspective on what those decisions should ideally rest on. Today we’re setting it out in our first position paper: Persistent identifiers in research infrastructure policy: the need for a holistic approach. You can read it online or download the PDF; it’s a 16-minute read.

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2026 July 09

Schema 5.5 now available: adding CRediT, new record types for blogs and posters, and more

Research is rarely limited to a single contributor performing a single role. Behind every research output are people contributing in various ways: software development, data analyses, methodology design, and much more. Often, the same person contributes in several of these ways. Until now, Crossref metadata could only capture part of that picture, but this is changing with Schema 5.5.

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Documentation

Browsable title list

The browsable title list provides an alphabetical list of journals, books, and conference proceedings for which Crossref has metadata, and is updated weekly. Browsing and searching may be limited by genre (all, journals, books, or conference proceedings) or search type (title, ISSN/ISBN, subject, or publisher). To search for a specific title, enclose the title in quotes, or search by ISSN.

Search results will include the following (when available):

Title (Journal/Book/Conf Proc): Title name. Journal titles are gray, book titles are green, and conference proceedings titles are purple.
Publisher: Publisher of the title as registered with us.
Print ISSN/ISBN: ISSN or ISBN (indicated by color) of the print version of the title.
Electronic ISSN/ISBN: ISSN or ISBN (indicated by color) of the electronic version of the title.
DOI: DOI assigned at the title level.

To review the results:

Click the icon to view the year(s), volume(s), and issue(s) deposited with Crossref for a title
Click the icon to view alternative title information, abbreviated titles (if any), other ISSNs or ISBNs, subjects covered, and any coverage notes for this content item. This information is obtained from a third party and may not match data deposited with Crossref
To request a missed conflict report for a title, click the icon at the far right of the row

You can also download a comma-separated journal coverage list (warning: large file).

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Last updated: 2024-July-22