Chuck Koscher discusses registering your content at Crossref, including different content types and new tools to help. Presented at Crossref LIVE local events in Pretoria and Cape Town, 17th and 19th April 2018.

2. Journals
Books
Book chapters
Conference proceedings
Datasets
Dissertations
Reports
Standards
Posted content (preprints)
Peer reviews
… and other stuff
What can I register?

3. Content type differences primarily driven
by the way publications are identified
journal must have an ISSN or a publication DOI or both
journal volume is just a number
journal issue is just a number
book volume must have a title and an ISBN and typically a DOI
book volumes may be part of a series
series must have an ISSN (sometimes a DOI)

4. metadata
everything, including…
author names, ORCIDs, affiliations, article titles,
ISSN, ISBN, pages, issue #, volume #s, dates,
identifiers

5. more metadata
such as …
reference lists, funding data, ORCIDs, license data, clinical trial
numbers, errata, retractions, updates and more through our
Crossmark service, JATS-formatted abstracts, relationships
between items…

6. Important to maintain your registered content
• Important to know how to work with the content you
register with Crossref
• So that readers can always find, and use the content
you publish

7. User clicks on a DOI in
the reference list in
Journal A
Crossref returns
URL where that
content is located
User accesses cited article in
Journal B

8. Members also register other
bibliographic material to
uniquely identify their content
- this metadata is as
important as the DOI itself

9. Important to deposit good quality metadata
https://search.crossref.org/

10. Ways to deposit metadata
• OJS Crossref plugin
• doi.crossref.org (the admin)
• The old web deposit form
• The new metadata manager
• Programmatically (use an API)

14. Metadata Manager

16. Presenter Name
Presenter Title
@twittername

18. curl -F 'operation=doMDUpload' -F 'login_id=USER -F 'login_passwd=PWD'
-F 'fname=@FILE' https://doi.crossref.org/servlet/deposit

19. curl -v -F 'operation=doMDUpload' -F 'usr=USER' -F 'pwd=PWD'
-F 'mdFile=@FILE' https://api.crossref.org/v2/deposits

20. Tools to help:
Participation Reports
(coming soon)

21. Benefits for Members Benefits for the Public
• Easily find out what
metadata they register
• See what metadata
members register
• See what their competition
is doing
• See their progress over
time
• See how they can improve
and be the best that they
can be
• Understand the quality of
members' metadata and
find out what needs to be
improved
• Generally leave being in the
dark behind
• See what their competition
is doing

27. Sharing metadata - benefits
• Greater discovery of your content
• Inclusion in discovery services
• Only your metadata is shared – not your full text!

28. Thank you