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Kirsty Meddings
2020 July 28

Similarity Check news: introducing the next generation iThenticate.

Crossref’s Similarity Check service is used by our members to detect text overlap with previously published work that may indicate plagiarism of scholarly or professional works. Manuscripts can be checked against millions of publications from other participating Crossref members and general web content using the iThenticate text comparison software from Turnitin.

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Ed Pentz
2020 July 23

Meet the new Crossref Executive Director

It’s me! Back in January I wrote, The one constant in Crossref’s 20 years has been change. This continues to be true, and the latest change is that I’m happy to say that I will be staying on as Executive Director of Crossref. At the recent Crossref board meeting, I rescinded my resignation and the board happily accepted this.

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Crossref
2020 June 30

New faces at Crossref

Please help us welcome new faces at Crossref! Martyn, Sara, Laura, and Mark joined us very recently and we are happy they’re with us. Both Martyn and Sara have joined the Product team and this has given us the chance to reorganize the team into the following groups: content registration, scholarly stewardship, scholarly impact, metadata retrieval, and UX/UI leadership. Laura joined the Finance and Operations team to help make the billing process simple for our members. Mark joins the Technology team and one of his projects will be improving the Event Data service.

It is exciting to already see the impact of your contributions and look forward to what’s to come!

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Vanessa Fairhurst
2020 June 29

Community Outreach in 2020

2020 hasn’t been quite what any of us had imagined. The pandemic has meant big adjustments in terms of working; challenges for parents balancing childcare and professional lives; anxieties and tensions we never had before; the strain of potentially being away from co-workers, friends, and family for a prolonged period of time. Many have suffered job losses and around the world, many have sadly lost their lives to the virus.

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The Crossref Curriculum

Setting up as a member

When you join as a Crossref member, you provide us with contact details for at least three different people at your organization. These people undertake five important roles to make your relationship with Crossref and the rest of the community a success.

  • The Business contact - this person will be our key contact at your organization. They receive product and service updates, and we contact about things like changes to terms or service agreements. They also receive our monthly resolution reports showing failed resolutions on your DOIs
  • The Voting contact - this person will vote in our Board elections. The Voting contact is often the same person as the Business contact
  • The Technical contact - this person will receive technical updates, DOI error reports, and conflict reports to help you solve problems with your content quickly
  • The Metadata contact - this person will be responsible for fixing any metadata errors that are spotted by the scholarly community
  • The Billing contact - this person will receive invoices from us and pay the annual membership and ongoing content registration fees.

After you’ve paid your membership fee, we set you up with your own unique prefix that you will use to create your DOIs. We’ll send you a Welcome email with your prefix, which includes your Crossref username and password that you’ll need to log in to our content registration systems. If you work with a third party (such as a platform provider or typesetter) to register your content with Crossref, let us know when you apply.

Last Updated: 2020 April 8 by Laura J. Wilkinson