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Ginny Hendricks
2021 July 26

Some rip-RORing news for affiliation metadata

We’ve just added to our input schema the ability to include affiliation information using ROR identifiers. Members who register content using XML can now include ROR IDs, and we’ll add the capability to our manual content registration form, participation reports, and metadata retrieval APIs in the near future. And we are inviting members to a Crossref/ROR webinar on 29th September at 3pm UTC. The background We’ve been working on the Research Organization Registry (ROR) as a community initiative for the last few years.

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Jennifer Kemp
2021 July 21

RFP: Help evaluate the reach and effects of metadata

We’re excited (and a little nervous) to launch a new research project designed to assess the effects of metadata on research communications. We’re expecting this effort to be a significant contribution to the existing research on the topic and we’re really looking forward to getting started. We’re also a little nervous because of course we don’t know what the conclusions will be (after all, if we did, we wouldn’t be starting this project).

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Patrick Polischuk
2021 July 06

Behind the scenes improvements to the REST API

UPDATE, 13 July 2021: The first stage of the cutover is complete, so requests to the public pool are now being served by the new REST API. We took a slightly different approach to performing the cutover, so the “Documentation” and “Temporary domain” sections below have been updated. Our REST API is the primary interface for anybody to fetch the metadata of content registered with us, and we’ve been working hard on a more robust REST API service that’s about to go live.

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Ginny Hendricks
2021 June 21

DOAJ and Crossref sign agreement to remove barriers to scholarly publishing for all

22 June 2021, London, UK and Boston, MA, USA — The future of global open access publishing received a boost today with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and Crossref. The MOU formalizes an already strong partnership between the two organisations and furthers their shared pursuit of an open scholarly communications ecosystem that is inclusive of emerging publishing communities. Both organisations aim to encourage the dissemination and use of scholarly research using open infrastructure, online technologies, regional and international networks, and community partners - all supporting local institutional capacity and sustainability around the world.

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

Geoffrey Bilder

Geoffrey Bilder – 2013 September 20

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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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