Tag: CrossRef
Standards: CrossRef Announces FundRef Pilot to Standardize Funding Source Information for Scholarly Publications
From CrossRef: CrossRef has announced FundRef, a pilot collaboration between scholarly publishers and funding agencies that will standardize the names of research funders and add grant numbers attributed in journal articles or other scholarly documents. The collaboration would allow researchers, publishers, and funding agencies to track the published research that results from specific funding bodies. […]
Roundup: News From CrossRef, Purdue U, HighWire, EBSCO, and ebrary
1. CrossMark Update Identification Service Launches 2. BMJ Group Renews Partnership with HighWire (PDF) 3. ebrary Helps Medical Libraries Acquire E-books Strategically, Launches New Packs (PDF) 4. Purdue: University Dedicates Krannert Renovated Library 5. EBSCO Publishing Enhances E-book Offerings with 39 New Subject Sets
New From Cross Ref Labs: First Public Release of “pdf-extract”
From the CrossTech Blog: CrossRef Labs is happy to announce the first public release of “pdf-extract” an open source set of tools and libraries for extracting citation references (and, eventually, other semantic metadata) from PDFs. We first demonstrated this tool to CrossRef members at our annual meeting last year. See the pdf-extract labs page for […]
More CrossRef Posts
New Issue: CrossRef Quarterly (January 2012)
Direct to Full Text From the Executive Director’s (Ed Pentz) Letter: CrossRef had a great year in 2011. We passed the 50 million DOI mark and ended the year with 51.6 million DOIs, and there were 526 million clicks (resolutions) of CrossRef DOIs, which means a lot of users getting a lot of content. [Clip] […]
It's Official: CrossRef Will Preserve Its Bibliographic and Reference Metadata With Portico
From an Announcement: Portico is pleased to announce that CrossRef has entered into an agreement with Portico to preserve its bibliographic and reference metadata. The agreement, which was initially announced as an “agreement in principle” in November 2010, will add bibliographic data with CrossRef Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for more than 46 million records from […]
Discovery Services: WorldCat Local Adds New Databases and Collections During May
This OCLC announcement includes the following list of new services added to the WorldCat Local Central Index during May, 2011. CrossRef, which provides bibliographic data and persistent links through Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for more than 35 million journal articles and other scholarly content. BioOne, which provides access to critical, peer-reviewed research in the biological, […]
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"New Linked Data for Libraries"
From a SemanticWeb.com Posting: A new blog post discusses some “big news for folks interested in Library Linked Data: CrossRef has made the metadata for 46 million Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) available as Linked Data. DOIs are heavily used in the publishing space to uniquely identify electronic documents (largely scholarly journal articles). CrossRef is a […]
