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Kathleen Luschek
2020 October 13

Calling all 24-hour (PID) party people!

While we wish we could be together in person to celebrate the fifth PIDapalooza, there’s an upside to moving it online: now everyone can participate in the universe’s best PID party! With 24 hours of non-stop PID programming, you’ll be able to come to the party no matter where you happen to be. Send us your ideas for #PIDapalooza21 Now is your chance to share your work in the #PIDapalooza21 spotlight!

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Rachael Lammey
2020 October 12

EASE Council Post: Rachael Lammey on the Research Nexus

This blog was initially posted on the European Association of Science Editors (EASE) blog: “EASE Council Post: Rachael Lammey on the Research Nexus”. EASE President Duncan Nicholas accurately introduces it as a whole lot of information and insights about metadata and communication standards into one post… I was given a wide brief to decide on the topic of my EASE blog, so I thought I’d write one that tries to encompass everything - I’ll explain what I mean by that.

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Lucy Ofiesh
2020 September 28

2020 Board Election

This year, Crossref’s Nominating Committee assumed the task of developing a slate of candidates to fill six open board seats. We are grateful that in the midst of a challenging year, we received over 70 expressions of interest from all around the world, a 40% increase from last year’s response. It was an extraordinary pool of applicants and a testament to the strength of our membership community. There are six seats open for election (two large, four small), and the Nominating Committee is pleased to present the following slate.

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Ludo Waltman
2020 September 25

Open Abstracts: Where are we?

The Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA) launched this week. The initiative calls on scholarly publishers to make the abstracts of their publications openly available. More specifically, publishers that work with Crossref to register DOIs for their publications are requested to include abstracts in the metadata they deposit in Crossref. These abstracts will then be made openly available by Crossref. 39 publishers have already agreed to join I4OA and to open their abstracts.

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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 Primary 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. (Those of you who have been members for a while will know this contact as the Business contact)
  • The Voting contact - this person will vote in our Board elections. The Voting contact is often the same person as the Primary 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