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Martyn Rittman
2024 November 15

Research Integrity Roundtable 2024

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.

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Dominika Tkaczyk
2024 November 06

How good is your matching?

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.

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Kornelia Korzec
2024 October 28

Update on the Resourcing Crossref for Future Sustainability research

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.

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Lucy Ofiesh
2024 September 24

Meet the candidates and vote in our 2024 Board elections

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).

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Preprint advisory group

The purpose of the preprint Advisory Group is to support Crossref to collect and improve the quality of metadata for preprints. The group is comprised of both our members as well as non-members (third party platforms and organizations) who are interested in preprints.

Group Members

Chair: Oya Rieger, Ithaka
Facilitator: Martyn Rittman, Crossref

  • Alainna Wrigley, California Digital library
  • Alex Mendonca, SciELO
  • Ben Mudrak, ChemRxiv
  • Bianca Kramer, Sesame Open Science
  • Ioana Craciun, Preprints
  • Dasapta Erwin Irawan, RINarxiv
  • David Woodworth, OCLC
  • Elisa Pettinelli Barrett, Research Square
  • Emily Marchant, Cambridge University Press
  • Ginny Hendricks, Crossref
  • Gunther Eysenbach, JMIR
  • Jeff Beck, NCBI, US National Library of Medicine
  • Jingyu Liu, ChinaXiv
  • Johanna Havemann, AfricaArxiv
  • Johannes Wagner, Copernicus
  • Katharine Hancox, IET
  • Katie Corker, ASAPbio
  • Frederick Atherden, Elife
  • Michael Evans, F1000 Research
  • Michael Parkin, Europe PMC
  • Michele Avissar-Whiting, Research Square
  • Nici Pfeiffer, Center for Open Science
  • Patricia Feeney, Crossref
  • Richard Sever, BioRxiv
  • Richard Wynne, Rescognito
  • Robin Dunford
  • Shirley Decker-Lucke, SSRN
  • Tony Alves, HighWire Press
  • Thomas Lemberger, EMBO
  • Wendy Patterson, Beilstein-Institut

How the group works (and the guidelines)

The preprint Advisory Group is led by a Chair and a Crossref Facilitator, who together help to develop meeting agendas, lead discussions, outline group actions and rally the community outside of the Advisory Group for support with the service where appropriate.

The group is currently active. Please contact Martyn Rittman with any questions.

Outputs

Over its first year of operation, the Advisory Group has developed recommendations in four key areas of preprint metadata. These are:

  • preprint withdrawal and removal
  • preprints as an article type
  • versioning of preprints
  • preprint relationship metadata.

In July 2022, the AG published a set of recommendations (https://doi.org/10.13003/psk3h6qey4) and invited public comment, available on our Community Forum. An in-depth report of discussions of the AG is available at https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/qzusj.

Minutes

Minutes of the group are available on this page.

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