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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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Amanda Bartell
2020 September 21

Get involved with Peer Review Week 2020 and register your peer reviews with Crossref

Just when you thought 2020 couldn’t go any faster, it’s Peer Review week again! Peer Review is such an important part of the research process and highlighting the role it plays is key to retaining and reinforcing trust in the publishing process.  

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Rosa Clark
2020 September 17

Crossref at the Frankfurt Digital Book Fair

Frankfurt Book Fair (#FBM20) will be online this year since people are really not traveling right now.  This special edition of #FBM20 will have an extensive digital program in which we will be participating. So you can hang out with us from anywhere in the world! 

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Maria Gould
2020 August 25

Publishers, are you ready to ROR?

If you manage a publishing system or workflow, you know how crucial—and how challenging!—it is to have clean, consistent, and comprehensive affiliation metadata. Author affiliations, and the ability to link them to publications and other scholarly outputs, are vital for numerous stakeholders across the research landscape. Institutions need to monitor and measure their research output by the articles their researchers have published. Funders need to be able to discover and track the research and researchers they have supported.

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DOIs unambiguously and persistently identify published, trustworthy, citable online scholarly literature. Right?

Geoffrey Bilder

Geoffrey Bilder – 2013 September 20

In IdentifiersInteroperabilityORCIDPersistenceDataCite

The South Park movie , “Bigger, Longer & Uncut” has a DOI: a) http://0-dx.doi.org.lib.rivier.edu/10.5240/B1FA-0EEC-C316-3316-3A73-L So does the pornographic movie, “Young Sex Crazed Nurses”: b) http://0-dx.doi.org.lib.rivier.edu/10.5240/4CF3-57AB-2481-651D-D53D-Q And the following DOI points to a fake article on a “Google-Based Alien Detector”: c) http://0-dx.doi.org.lib.rivier.edu/10.6084/m9.figshare.93964 And the following DOI refers to an infamous fake article on literary theory: d) http://0-dx.doi.org.lib.rivier.edu/10.2307/466856 This scholarly article discusses the entirely fictitious Australian “Drop Bear”: e) http://0-dx.doi.org.lib.rivier.edu/10.1080/00049182.2012.731307 The following two DOIs point to the same article- the first DOI points to the final author version, and the second DOI points to the final published version:

Easily add publications to your ORCID profile

Geoffrey Bilder

Geoffrey Bilder – 2013 January 24

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You can now easily search for publications and add them to your ORCID profile in the new beta of Crossref Metadata Search (CRMDS). The user interface is pretty self-explanatory, but if you want to read about it before trying it, here is a summary of how it works. When you go to to CRMDS, you will see that there is now a small ORCID sign-in button on the top right-hand side of the screen.
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