CrossRef Member Update
Ed Pentz, Executive Director
April 9, 2002
Members, Affiliates and Agents
Members: 113 - http://www.crossref.org/members.htm
Affiliates: 17 - http://www.crossref.org/affiliates.htm
Agents: Allen Press, BioOne, American Institute of Physics, ingenta/CatchWord, HighWire
and Metapress
Library Affiliates: 30 - http://www.crossref.org/libraries.htm
System Stats (as of April 8, 2002)
6128 (5997 in March) total journals in database
4,613,012 (4,516,943 in March) records in database
Members: 113 (105 in March)
Depositor Reports - http://mddb1.crossref.org/crossref/reports/
Status Page - http://www.crossref.org/members_only/status.html
Go Live Table - http://www.crossref.org/members_only/golive.html
(cr_member/ref-linking to login)
Journal Inventory -- Survey to be launched April 15!
The first part of our journal inventory project will be conducted as a web-based survey. A
cover letter with a link to the survey will be mailed to publisher business contacts next
Monday, April 15, with a request to complete the survey within 10 days, by April 24. This
part of the inventory collects general information about your journal publishing, digitization,
and deposit/query plans. This information is critical to CrossRef budgeting and planning.
Please look for and respond to this email from October Ivins, our consultant on this
project.
A second phase of the inventory, to be conducted once the new system is in place, will focus
on normalizing journal title-level information, as a way of further verifying deposited
records.
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Administrative Issues
Membership Agreement. Remember to sign and return the new Membership Agreement.
Thank you to those who have already done so.
Invoicing. Invoices for the first quarter deposits and queries were sent last week.
CrossRef Staff. I’m pleased to announce that Chuck Koscher will be joining CrossRef as
Director of Technology on April 29th, 2002. Chuck joins CrossRef from General Dynamics’
TechSight division. Chuck’s excellent management and technical skills, especially with
XML, will be an asset to CrossRef.
CrossRef Marketing
Marketing/PR. Recruitment continues to go well. Eight new publishers joined CrossRef in
March, along with seven new libraries. Also during March, CrossRef staff spoke at the "latest
on linking" SSP seminar in NYC in March, the 4th Annual Science Directing Meeting, and
CERN/Swiss National Library.
CrossRef is mentioned favorably in a recent edition of the Free Pint
Newsletter at http://www.freepint.com/issues/210302.htm in the Feature
Article about scholarly publishing. If you come across a mention of CrossRef in the press,
please alert us by emailing abrand@crossref.org.
Work continues on the redesign of the CrossRef website, and new documentation is being
added to the current site at the same time. Since the CrossRef website was launched in July
of 2000, there have been 77,161 unique visitors to the site. Unique visitors currently average
139 per day, and homepage hits average 462 per day -- the gallery, FAQs, and banner ads
receive much of this traffic.
Library Advisory Board (LAB)
The first LAB meeting will be held on April 15 in Washington, DC. As a few of our
members have commented, the librarians currently in LAB (see last month's update for this
list) are all from US libraries. Although this is the core group, the plan is to pull in additional
international representatives to participate in online and telephone discussions on a regular
basis. The two main topics for discussion at the first meeting are CrossSearch, and library
experience with access to and purchase of full-text articles.
CrossRef System
DOI Guidelines – the DOI Guidelines are now available. This document provides basic
information about CrossRef journal DOIs and how they should be used. A copy is being sent
along with this update and it is also available on the website http://www.crossref.org/DOI%20Guidelines(final).pdf. In particular, the Guidelines include
information on how DOIs should be displayed online, in print and in citations – DOIs should
be part of the basic bibliographic metadata for articles. The basic format is
doi:10.1098/rspa.2001.0787 – the DOI is lowercase to fit in with the general web practice of
making HTTP and FTP lowercase. Also, DOIs should be considered part of the standard set
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of bibliographic metadata for an article and displayed online, in print and included in files
sent to secondaries. New and existing members alike should read the DOI Guidelines.
New Schema & Content Types - Version 2.0.4 of the new schema and documentation has
been released and posted to the TWG area http://www.crossref.org/members_only/twg/CrossRefSchema204.zip. The current DTD will
be valid until the end of the year, but publishers should start working now on moving to the
new schema. Instructions for test submissions are available http://www.crossref.org/members_only/twg/Instructions%20for%20New%20Schema.htm.
As part of the new system we need to get sample conference proceedings and book content
using the new schema. We need more sample data, in particular book data, from
members. If you currently publish electronic reference works or monographs that you
plan to register with CrossRef, please help us get the new schema up and running.
Contact Punya Rawal (prawal@crossref.org) to discuss.
System Rewrite – Atypon provided a demonstration of the new system to the System Rewrite
group last week. A lot of refinement in the processes is needed, but already the system has a
higher matching rate than the existing system. A beta system will be deployed on CrossRef’s
servers by April 30th, 2002, with the final system in place by the end of May. June and July
will a transition phase with the new system going into production in July. Current deposit
and query formats will be supported by the system. A full deployment and transition plan is
being developed at the moment.
Parameter Passing – the final draft of the parameter paper is being sent along with this
update and is posted to the website - http://www.crossref.org/members_only/parameters.pdf.
We are now getting underway with a prototype of parameter passing – we need publishers to
create DOI links with parameters and we also need publishers who can test receiving
parameters and processing the information. We are looking for participants for the parameter
passing prototype. Please contact Ed Pentz (epentz@crossref.org).
DOIs in PubMed
We would like to encourage publishers to send DOIs to PubMed for linking back to the full
text. This is an efficient way to link from PubMed (you don’t need to worry about URLs
going bad) and it is a way to encourage use of DOIs. For an example of the DOI used to link
to the full text, see a Nature record in PubMed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=1193
2750&dopt=Abstract. Behind the “Nature” icon is a link with the DOI in it.
Instructions on Sending DOIs to PubMed
1. Publishers specify links with LinkOut files that they can update anytime, including using
completely different URLs for existing PubMed citations.
2. Publisher can supply a DOI with PubMed citation using the element
ArticleId and Attribute IdType
Example:
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<ArticleId IdType="doi">10.1038/35102660</ArticleId>
For details about citation submission, please see:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query/static/publisher.html
Then, in the LinkOut files, publishers can use the LinkOut entity &lo.doi; to construct the
rule for their URLs. PubMed will replace the entity with the actual doi for the record
displayed.
3. Publisher can supply DOIs for their back files to us in a text file of the following format:
PMID</tab>DOI
one pair per line.
PMIDs (PubMed Identifiers) of PubMed citations can be obtained via our tool: Citation
Matcher. For details on this tool, please see:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/getids_help.html
Reminder: the email address support@crossref.org can be used for general technical support
issues and any problems with DOIs not resolving.
Reference Linking
42 members are creating reference links. Those publishers creating reference links are:
AAAS(SCIENCE)
ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (ASA)
ACM
ALPSP (ASSOCIATION OF LEARNED AND
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY PUBLISHERS)
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICISTS IN
MEDICINE (AAPM)
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICS
TEACHERS (AAPT)
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF MEDICAL PHYSICS
(ACMP)
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS (AIP)
AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (APS)
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR BIOCHEMISTRY &
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY (ASBMB)
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS
(ASCE)
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGISTS
AMERICAN VACUUM SOCIETY (AVS)
ANNUAL REVIEWS
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ASME INTERNATIONAL
ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY
(ACM)
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING SOCIETY (BMES)
BLACKWELL PUBLISHING
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY PRESS
(CSHL)
ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY
ELSEVIER SCIENCE – Academic Press, Mosby,
Saunders, Cell Press
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (GSA)
INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS (IOP)
INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS (IEE)
INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIFFRACTION
DATA (ICDD)
INTERNATIONAL UNION OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
(IUCr)
JOHN WILEY & SONS
MAIK-NAUKA INTERPERIODICA
MARY ANN LIEBERT
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
PION, LTD
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF
SCIENCES (PNAS)
ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY PRESS
ROYAL SOCIETY
SOCIETY FOR EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICS
SOCIETY OF RHEOLOGY (SOR)
SPIE-INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF OPTICAL
ENGINEERING
SPRINGER-VERLAG
TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP
THIEME PUBLISHING GROUP
TURPION
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
WORLD SCIENTIFIC
DOI Resolutions
March saw a 5% increase over February. It’s good to see the higher levels of resolutions
maintained.
May 2000 December 2000 January 2001 June 2001 –
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87,509
250,666
336,290
364,977
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November 2001 December 2001 January 2002 –
February 2002 –
March 2002 -
765,188
628,844
488,639
953,280
1,007,923
International DOI Foundation (IDF) Update
An HTML of the DOI Handbook is available - http://www.doi.org/hb.html.
Adobe Support – there was a very productive meeting with Adobe about including support
for DOIs in the Adobe Reader (the separate e-book reader and Acrobat Reader are being
merged). To quote from the latest IDF Director’s Report:
A video/teleconference took place on March 12th between Adobe, various IDF and CrossRef
members, and CNRI to make the business case to Adobe that they should recognize the
DOI as a way to work with publishers to add value to their tools while allowing the
publishers to add value to their content. It was presented as an excellent opportunity for
Adobe and the DOI publishing community to work together to their mutual benefit. Both
the CrossRef and LON communities were clearly of interest to Adobe. There was not much
technical content to the teleconference discussion, which was appropriate, and the
business case was made mainly by laying out the existing usage, evolving plans, and the
publishers' strong support of DOI. It appeared to be well received. The Adobe side has
now appointed technical point persons on their side with whom Larry Lannom is working to
lay out the possibilities: this is also highly relevant to the TWG work and Larry is using this
as an aid to defining the service framework.
This is a very positive development and could lead to references being linked in PDFs by just
including doi:xxxx rather than by hard-coding a URL with the DOI proxy server address
(dx.doi.org).
CAL (the Copyright Agency Ltd, Australia) was appointed the fifth Registration Agency
(RA). CAL administers copyright for thousands of authors, journalists and publishers by
granting permission and collecting payments for the right to reproduce work. CAL is
looking at assigning DOIs to books, journal titles and newspaper articles.
The IDF and ONIX issued a press release about cooperation between the two groups http://www.doi.org/news/020319-Editeur.html. Both organizations will work to make sure
the DOI and ONIX systems are interoperable.
Registration Agency Working Group (RAWG) and Technical Working Group (TWG) – The
RAWG will soon be receiving draft legal agreements for review and a proposal for a multiple
resolution/extended services prototype is being developed.
Recent and Upcoming Presentations
ALA, January 2002, Amy Brand
IDF Seminar NY, Craig van Dyck, January 2002
IDF Seminar DC, Michael Spinella, February 2002
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NFAIS, February 2002, Ed Pentz
4th Annual ScienceDirect Meeting, March, Ed Pentz
CERN/Swiss National Library, Library Science Talks, March 2002, Ed Pentz
SSP Linking Seminar, March 2002, Amy Brand
Nelinet Seminar, April 2002, Ed Pentz
NYLink, April 2002, Amy Brand
Council of Science Editors, May 2002, Amy Brand
SSP, May 2002, Ed Pentz
American Society for Engineering Education, June 2002, Ed Pentz
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