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2024 December 12

A progress update and a renewed commitment to community

Looking back over 2024, we wanted to reflect on where we are in meeting our goals, and report on the progress and plans that affect you - our community of 21,000 organisational members as well as the vast number of research initiatives and scientific bodies that rely on Crossref metadata. In this post, we will give an update on our roadmap, including what is completed, underway, and up next, and a bit about what’s paused and why.

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2024 December 09

A summary of our Annual Meeting

The Crossref2024 annual meeting gathered our community for a packed agenda of updates, demos, and lively discussions on advancing our shared goals. The day was filled with insights and energy, from practical demos of Crossref’s latest API features to community reflections on the Research Nexus initiative and the Board elections. Our Board elections are always the focal point of the Annual Meeting. We want to start reflecting on the day by congratulating our newly elected board members: Katharina Rieck from Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Lisa Schiff from California Digital Library, Aaron Wood from American Psychological Association, and Amanda Ward from Taylor and Francis, who will officially join (and re-join) in January 2025.

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2024 December 07

2024 POSI audit

Background The Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI) provides a set of guidelines for operating open infrastructure in service to the scholarly community. It sets out 16 points to ensure that the infrastructure on which the scholarly and research communities rely is openly governed, sustainable, and replicable. Each POSI adopter regularly reviews progress, conducts periodic audits, and self-reports how they’re working towards each of the principles. In 2020, Crossref’s board voted to adopt the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure, and we completed our first self-audit.

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2024 December 05

Summary of the environmental impact of Crossref

In June 2022, we wrote a blog post “Rethinking staff travel, meetings, and events” outlining our new approach to staff travel, meetings, and events with the goal of not going back to ‘normal’ after the pandemic. We took into account three key areas: The environment and climate change Inclusion Work/life balance We are aware that many of our members are also interested in minimizing their impacts on the environment, and we are overdue for an update on meeting our own commitments, so here goes our summary for the year 2023!

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InChI Lookup

2 minute read.

Note: This experiment has been retired. This description has been kept for reference, but many of the links and/or services that appear below no longer work.

The idea is to create a mechanism that would allow Crossref publishers to record InChIs in their submitted Crossref metadata. This, in turn, would allow us to provide a service that would allow users to:

Lookup the published articles that mention a particular InChI.
Lookup the InChIs mentioned in a published article.

Similar services could, conceivably, be provided for other types of semantic metadata.

The following is a demonstrator of what an DOI2InChI lookup service might look like. Please note that the XML representation of the results is very basic and is not best-practice for linked-data.

The demonstrator currently only holds DOIs and InChIs for a few publishers. A summary of the contents of the database can be found on the status page

http://inchi.crossref.org/status

A list of all the Crossref DOIs that contain InChIs can be seen here:

http://inchi.crossref.org/dois

A list of all the InChIs that have been registered with Crossref can be seen here:

http://inchi.crossref.org/inchis

The system provides the following API calls:

Return all the DOIs that have been registered with a given InChI

http://inchi.crossref.org/dois/InChI=1S/C4H6O2/c1-3-6-4(2)5/h3H,1H2,2H3

Return all the InChIs that have been registered for a given DOI

http://inchi.crossref.org/inchis/10.1038/nchem.215

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