Latest blog posts
Ginny Hendricks
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.

...Find out more
Rosa Morais Clark
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.

...Find out more
Lucy Ofiesh
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.

...Find out more
Ed Pentz
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!

...Find out more
  • Menu
search

Our truths

These are the Crossref truths. These are the principles that guide us in everything we do. They were tested with members and adopted by our board in 2016. We tweaked and added “What you see, what you get” in 2017.

Come one, come all

We define publishing broadly. If you communicate research and care about preserving the scholarly record, join us. We are a global community of members with content in all disciplines, in many formats, and with all kinds of business models.

One member, one vote

Help us set the agenda. It doesn’t matter how big or small you are, every member gets a single vote to create a board that represents all types of members.

Smart alone, brilliant together

Collaboration is at the core of everything we do. We involve the community through active working groups and committees. Our focus is on things that are best achieved by working together.

Love metadata, love technology

We do R&D to support and expand the shared infrastructure we run for the scholarly community. We create open tools and APIs to help enrich and exchange metadata with thousands of third parties, to drive discoverability of our members’ content.

What you see, what you get

Ask us anything. We’ll tell you what we know. Openness and transparency are principles that guide everything we do.

Here today, here tomorrow

We’re here for the long haul. Our obsession with persistence applies to all things—metadata, links, technology, and the organization. But “persistent” doesn’t mean “static”; as research communications continues to evolve, so do we.

Please let us know what you think by contacting our outreach team.

Page owner: Ginny Hendricks   |   Last updated 2021-February-26