When collaboration is more than a nice idea

Chuck KoscherDirector of Technology

Sci ELO ConferenceSão Paulo, Brazil

October 22-25 2013

When collaboration is more than a nice idea

In 1999 a small group of publishers met at the Frankfort Book Fair.

They had a problem.

Reference linking was an expanding challenge

Bilateral agreements

• Provides services publishers cannot accomplish alone - they require collaboration

• 16-member international board of directors from membership

• Commercial, societies, non-profits, university presses, Open Access publishers -66% non-profit

– 1777 Members – 4400 publishers– 1700 Libraries

• All subjects: STM, humanities, social science, professional

Who is ?

• Members from 76 Countries

Australia

Brazil

CanadaChina

Croatia

Germany

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Turkey UK

USA0

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20 Countries with the Largest# of CrossRef Members

User clicks on CrossRef DOI reference link in Journal A

Guo W, Wang ZY, Wang YL, Zhang ZP, Gui JF. Isolation and characterization of six microsatellite markers in the large yellow croaker (Pseucosciaena crocea Richardson). Mol Ecol Notes, 2005, 5(2): 369–371.  [CrossRef]

DOI directory returns URL

User accesses cited article in Journal B

Clow GD, McKay CP, Simmons Jr. GM, and Wharton RA, Jr. 1988. Climatological observations and predicted sublimation rates at Lake Hoare, Antarctica. Journal of Climate 1:715-728

<query key="key"> <author>Clow</author> <issue>1</issue> <year>1988</year> <first_page>715</first_page> <journal_title>Journal of Climate</journal_title> </query>

http://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0442(1988)001<0715:COAPSR>2.0.CO;2

Anyone can use CrossRef to turn these

Into these

it looks like a link

^And ISO

90,000,000March 2013

DOI Clicks

7 million book DOIs out of 63 million CrossRef DOIs

http://crossref.org/06members/53status.html

85%

9% 5% 1%

Distribution of CrossRef DOIs by Content Type

JournalsBooksConference ProceedingsComponents

ServicesMetadata

Built on

Another example of essential collaboration

a standard way to report funding sources for scholarly research

DOI

FundingSource

Award Number

The Registry is the cornerstone of FundRef

The FundRef Registry provides a common taxonomy of over 5000 funding body names that FundRef participants should use to normalize Funder Names and IDs for deposit.

HierarchyDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs parent to: Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency

Funder Name Registry

membersauthors

Taxonomy of funder names

Metadata identifiesfunding source

Use pick-list to identify funders

Query to identify funded articles (& data)

http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/fundref_registry

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• Cross-publisher reference linking

• Cross-publisher Cited-by linking

• Cross-publisher metadata feeds to CMS Affiliates

• Cross-publisher originality screening

• Cross-publisher update service

• Cross-publisher funder identification

• Cross-publisher text and data-mining

Cited-by information is available from multiple sources

CrossRef’s service is an essential complement

doi.crossref.org/servlet/getForwardLinks?usr=***&pwd=***&doi=10.5132/jbse.2007.01.011

365,176,670Number of CrossRef Cited-By links

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• Cross-publisher reference linking

• Cross-publisher Cited-by linking

• Cross-publisher metadata feeds to CMS Affiliates

• Cross-publisher originality screening

• Cross-publisher update service

• Cross-publisher funder identification

• Cross-publisher text and data-mining

Plagiarism Detection

Similarity Detection

# of Documents Uploaded to iThenticate by CrossCheck Publishers

Sep-12

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• Cross-publisher reference linking

• Cross-publisher Cited-by linking

• Cross-publisher metadata feeds to CMS Affiliates

• Cross-publisher originality screening

• Cross-publisher update service

• Cross-publisher funder identification

• Cross-publisher text and data-mining

Notifying readers of new editions• CrossMark Update

Identification Service

http://www.crossref.org/crossmark/

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• Cross-publisher reference linking

• Cross-publisher Cited-by linking

• Cross-publisher metadata feeds to CMS Affiliates

• Cross-publisher originality screening

• Cross-publisher update service

• Cross-publisher funder identification

• Cross-publisher text and data-mining

"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."

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http://www.crossref.org

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