CrossRef
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CrossRef is an official Digital Object Identifier
(DOI) Registration Agency of the International DOI Foundation. It was launched in early 2000 as a cooperative effort among publishers to enable persistent cross-publisher citation linking in online academic journal
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It now interlinks millions of items from a variety of content types, including journals, books, conference proceedings, working papers, technical reports, and datasets. Linked content includes materials from Scientific, Technical and Medical (STM) and Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) disciplines. The expense is paid for by CrossRef Member publishers.
In addition to the DOI technology linking scholarly references, CrossRef enables a common linking contract among its participants. Members agree to assign DOIs to their current journal content and they also agree to link from the references of their content to other publishers' content. This reciprocity is an important component of what makes the system work.
Non-publisher organizations can participate in CrossRef by becoming affiliates. Such organizations include libraries, online journal hosts, linking service providers, secondary database providers, and providers of article discovery tools.
The core CrossRef system was built by Atypon.
Services for researchers available from CrossRef:
Digital object identifier
A digital object identifier is a character string used to uniquely identify an object such as an electronic document. Metadata about the object is stored in association with the DOI name and this metadata may include a location, such as a URL, where the object can be found...
(DOI) Registration Agency of the International DOI Foundation. It was launched in early 2000 as a cooperative effort among publishers to enable persistent cross-publisher citation linking in online academic journal
Electronic journal
Electronic journals, also known as ejournals, e-journals, and electronic serials, are scholarly journals or intellectual magazines that can be accessed via electronic transmission. In practice, this means that they are usually published on the Web...
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Background
CrossRef has more than 900 voting member publishers who represent over 3000 societies and publishers, including both commercial and not-for-profit organizations. CrossRef also includes publishers with varied business models, including those with open access and subscription policies. CrossRef does not provide a database of fulltext scientific content. Rather, it facilitates the links between content hosted at other sites.It now interlinks millions of items from a variety of content types, including journals, books, conference proceedings, working papers, technical reports, and datasets. Linked content includes materials from Scientific, Technical and Medical (STM) and Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) disciplines. The expense is paid for by CrossRef Member publishers.
In addition to the DOI technology linking scholarly references, CrossRef enables a common linking contract among its participants. Members agree to assign DOIs to their current journal content and they also agree to link from the references of their content to other publishers' content. This reciprocity is an important component of what makes the system work.
Non-publisher organizations can participate in CrossRef by becoming affiliates. Such organizations include libraries, online journal hosts, linking service providers, secondary database providers, and providers of article discovery tools.
The core CrossRef system was built by Atypon.
Services
In addition to assigning DOIs to scholarly content, CrossRef has additional services to fulfill its mission "to enable easy identification and use of trustworthy electronic content by promoting the cooperative development and application of a sustainable infrastructure". These services include:- Cited-By Linking
- CrossRef Metadata Services
- CrossCheck plagiarism screening (in cooperation with iThenticate)
Services for researchers available from CrossRef: