Crossref
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| legal form | Non-profit organization |
| founding | 2000 |
| Seat | Lynnfield, MA 01940, USA |
| Website | https://www.crossref.org |
Crossref (formerly CrossRef ) was founded in 2000 as a member-based non-profit organization Publishers International Linking Association Inc. (PILA). The aim of this cooperation in the publishing world was to solve the problem of linking specialist articles from different publishers - the link from the citing article to the cited article. Instead of bilateral agreements between publishers, Crossref should provide a service that made it possible to link to content from other publishers via persistent identifiers .
Today Crossref sees its mission more comprehensively in making research results easy to find, citable, linkable and assessable and to improve communication in the scientific community as a whole. For this purpose, Crossref provides a range of products and services that are essentially based on links between metadata and evaluate them, such as links between publications and preprints , associated research data or funding programs (from which these publications emerged). As a persistent identifier for most of its services, Crossref uses the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and acts as one of the official registration agencies for DOIs.
Services
Crossref's core service addresses the original goal of linking between cited and cited publications. Participating publishers register Crossref DOIs and deposit metadata for their own publications. For the literature cited in your publications, you will receive a DOI that may already have been registered elsewhere and link it in the reference list of your publication. A corresponding service for publications from previous years (so-called back files) is also possible and is promoted through appropriate pricing.
As part of the optional Cited-By (quoted by) service, publishers who deposit metadata on the literature cited in their publications at Crossref receive in return evaluations of the cited publications. Due to the network effect, the value of this citation database increases the more members use the service.
With a corpus of over 97 million database entries (as of June 2018), Crossref has developed into an important source for Open Access bibliographic metadata; The more than 750 million cited-by links at the same time, many of which can be used openly, represent an important source for the OpenCitations Corpus.
In addition, Crossref operates a directory for funding organizations, the Open Funder Registry, which assigns a persistent Funder ID ( DOI with a special prefix) to each research funding organization, and works together with other organizations (e.g. DataCite and ORCID ) on various initiatives that Seek to establish persistent identifiers for other parts of the scientific community , e.g. for conferences, funding programs or organizations.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Crossref Brand update: new names, logos, guidelines, + video - Crossref. Retrieved June 21, 2018 (American English).
- ↑ Certificate of Incorporation - CrossRef. January 18, 2000. Retrieved June 19, 2018 (American English).
- ^ The Formation of CrossRef: A Short History. Retrieved June 21, 2018 (American English).
- ↑ "Crossref makes research outputs easy to find, cite, link, and assess." (Official Crossref website). Retrieved June 21, 2018 (American English).
- ↑ Fees - Crossref. Retrieved June 21, 2018 (American English).
- ↑ Cited-by - Crossref. Retrieved June 21, 2018 (American English).
- ↑ a b Status report. Retrieved June 21, 2018 (American English).
- ↑ 1findr, Dimensions and other free mega indexes - A review of the space and numbers comparison. Retrieved June 21, 2018 .
- ↑ http://opencitations.net/corpus
- ↑ Funder Registry - CrossRef. Retrieved June 21, 2018 (American English).
- ↑ PIDs for Conferences & Projects - Crossref. Retrieved June 21, 2018 (American English).
- ↑ Global Persistent Identifiers for grants, awards, and facilities - Crossref. Retrieved June 21, 2018 (American English).
- ^ Organization Identifier Working Group. March 15, 2017, accessed June 21, 2018 .