Small Publisher Tools Karl Ward Principal R&D Engineer @karlward #crworkshops14
Jul 10, 2015
Small Publisher Tools
Karl WardPrincipal R&D Engineer
@karlward #crworkshops14
● BIG! Commercial publishers, societies, university presses
● Greater than $1,000,000 in publishing revenue● CrossRef services built for this size of member● But they account for only 18% of CrossRef members
x
'Small' Publishers● 82% of CrossRef members fit into our lowest membership
tier by publishing revenue● Nearly all new CrossRef members fall into this category,
and are often:– Small publishers, sometimes a single journal– Open access– From BRICS / low or middle income countries– Using PKP's Open Journal Platform– Having difficulty integrating CrossRef services
CrossRef's goal is to be a trusted collaborative organization with broad community connections; authoritative and innovative in support of a persistent, sustainable infrastructure for scholarly communication.
CrossRef's general purpose is to promote the development and cooperative use of new and innovative technologies to speed and
facilitate scholarly research. CrossRef's specific mandate is to be the citation linking backbone for all scholarly information in electronic form. CrossRef is a collaborative reference linking service that functions as a sort of digital switchboard. It holds no full text content, but rather effects linkages through CrossRef Digital Object Identifiers (CrossRef DOI), which are tagged to article metadata supplied by the participating publishers. The end result is an efficient, scalable linking system through which a researcher can click on a reference citation in a journal and access the cited article.
Why should we care?
There is a two-tier scholarly communication ecosystem
A DOI enables servicesA DOI makes content discoverable
A DOI makes content visible
Without DOIs, journal articles are invisible
Why should we care?
Selfish Reasons
For big publishers: DOI links drive traffic to their content
For CrossRef:CrossRef will loose its tax exempt status if it
discriminates by serving only part of the scholarly publishing industry
OJS and Small Publishers
● About 7,000 journals are hosted by OJS● Roughly 400 CrossRef members host journals
on OJS● A good target for integration improvements● We want to make it easy for OJS publishers to
become CrossRef members and participate in CrossRef services
OJS CrossRef Plugin● Automatically deposit article metadata and register DOIs with
CrossRef– No more manual XML export and import– Deposits full-text links and license URIs for CrossRef TDM– Funding information for FundRef, abstracts and CrossMark coming
soon● Started collaboration at OJS hackathon, Vancouver back in March● Available in OJS 2.4.5 onwards● Launched 18th September
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Ankara Medical Journal Acta Medica Anatolia
Associação Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação em Turismo
(ANPTUR)
Faculty of Agriculture of Ankara University
Barış Araştırmaları ve Çatışma Çözümleri Dergisi
Bozok Medical Journal Rivista degli Istituti Storici dell'Emilia Romagna in Rete
Universidad Distrital Francisco Jose de Caldas
DERİM - Batı Akdeniz Tarımsal Araştırma Enstitüsü
Journal of the Faculty of Forestry – Istanbul University
Galatasaray UniversityFaculty of Communication
İlköğretim Online Journal of Experimental and Clinical Medicine
Journal of Contemporary Medicine
Kafkas Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi
Zeynep Kamil Tıp Bülteni Lepidus Tecnologia
Alluvium Monthly Review Foundation Philippine Association of Institutions for Research (PAIR)
Polish Botanical Society Sakarya ÜNİVERSİTESİFen Bilimleri Enstitüsü Dergisi
Ankara Üniversitesi SBF Dergisi
Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education
International Journal of Human Sciences
UMP Press
Members Using OJS Plugin
Cost Implications for BRICS publishers
Country Annual Fees (PPP / GDP adjusted)
UK $448
Lithuania $859
Russia $965
Brazil $1,379
China $1,931
Egypt $2,487
India $4,436
Uganda $12,626
Zimbabwe $32,830
Average annual fee + deposit fees for a small publisher: $448(assuming 60 DOIs registered annually)
Sponsoring Entities● Waive fees via sponsoring entity agreements,
such as with INASP and OASPA● New partnership with PKP announced 18th
September– Fees waived for OJS journals in World Bank Low-
income Countries (LIC) and some Lower-middle-income Countries (LMC)
– Contact PKP to find out how to sign up
Eligible Countries under PKP / CrossRef Fee Waiver
Afghanistan Central African Republic
Gambia Liberia Niger Sudan
Bangladesh Chad Guinea Madagascar Pakistan Tajikistan
Benin Comoros Guinea-Bassau Malawi Rwanda Tanzania
Congo, Democratic Republic
Haiti Mali Sao Tome and Principe
Togo Burkina Faso
Cote d'Ivoire Kenya Mauritania Senegal Uganda Burundi
Djibouti Korea, Democratic Republic
Mozambique Sierra Leone Yemen Republic
Cambodia
Eritrea Kyrgyz Republic
Myanmar Somalia Zambia Cameroon
Ethiopia LAO PDR Nepal South Sudan Zimbabwe
CrossRef Services and Small Publishers
● CrossRef membership obligations – Display linked references on article landing pages– Deposit metadata and register DOIs with CrossRef– Content archiving
● CrossRef Cited-by requires deposit of outbound references
● Facilitate deposit, linking and display of citations
1. Extract Reference List
2. Match to DOIs
3. Deposit with CrossRef
Article PDF
Display linked referencesfrom CrossRef metadata on article landing page
APIs
● Extract citations from PDFs● Depositing PDF citations with CrossRef● Searching CrossRef metadata● Matching citation text to DOIs
api.crossref.org
Next Steps
● Extend OJS plugin to support funding information (FundRef), CrossMark
● Extend depositor to support easy deposit of license and full-text links for non-OJS users
Acknowledgements
● People at PKP– Brian Owen– Juan Pablo Alperin– James MacGregor– Božana Bokan
Thank you
@karlward #crossref14
Karl WardPrincipal R&D Engineer