You might have missed it, but you haven’t missed out. If you want to watch – or savor re-watching – the presentations from last week’s 2015 Crossref Annual Meeting, we’ve embedded each video below in chronological order.
You might have missed it, but you haven’t missed out. If you want to watch – or savor re-watching – the presentations from last week’s 2015 Crossref Annual Meeting, we’ve embedded each video below in chronological order.

The rebranding of Crossref was top priority when I joined in May in a new role called “Director of Member & Community Outreach”. Since then I’ve been working to understand the array of services, attributes, and audiences we have developed;
Crossref goes live in tandem with DataCite to push both publication and dataset information to ORCID profiles automatically.
Register for our webinar to learn best practices for depositing metadata and ways to help with the dissemination and discoverability of OA content. New Crossref services are being developed that have particular application to OA publishers. Did you know that our upcoming DOI Event Tracker service was inspired by a group of OASPA publishers asking if there was a way to centrally support the gathering of data
Curious about who will be speaking at Crossref’s Annual Meeting this year? We have a flock of scholarly communications talent gathering at the Taj Hotel in Boston from November 17-18, 2015.
Skimming the headlines on Hacker News yesterday morning, I noticed something exciting. A dump of all the submissions to Reddit since 2006. “How many of those are DOIs?”, I thought. Reddit is a very broad community, but has some very interesting parts, including some great science communication.

Oktoberfest is in full swing and that makes me think that it’s almost Frankfurt Book Fair time again!
The Taxonomies Interest Group would like to invite Crossref members to an informal drop-in at the Frankfurt Book Fair: 4-5pm on Wednesday 14th October at the TEMIS booth H76 The group would like to discuss how different publishers use their taxonomies for content enrichment and to explore the role that the Crossref
In the next few weeks, authors with an ORCID iD will be able to have Crossref automatically push information about their published work to their ORCID record. It’s something that ORCID users have been asking for and we’re pleased to be the first to develop the integration.
We’d like to invite the scholarly publishing community to get together in Boston this November with the Crossref Annual Meeting as a rally point.
Publishers, researchers, funders, institutions and technology providers are all interested in better understanding how scholarly research is used. Scholarly content has always been discussed by scholars outside the formal literature and by others beyond the academic community. We need a way to monitor and distribute this valuable information.