Become a crossref member
Organisations need to be members of Crossref to create metadata records that identify, describe, and locate their work.
Benefits of membership
- You can create and steward rich metadata records, adding relationships, provenance, contributor, and funding information, ensuring accuracy and persistence over time. By doing so, you are adding to and benefiting from reciprocal connections among a global network of research objects, co-creating a Research Nexus for the benefit of society including future generations.
- Works are more likely to be discovered if they have a Crossref record. Your organisation will be joining the world’s largest registry of Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) and metadata for scholarly research; your work is connected with 160 million other records from >20,000 other members from ~155 countries. Crossref facilitates an average of 1.1 billion DOI resolutions (clicks of a DOI link) every month, which is 95% of all DOI activity.
- Your metadata is freely and openly shared in a consistent, machine-readable way. You don’t have to duplicate the information for multiple parties as your metadata is discoverable by thousands of other systems in the global research ecosystem; there are over 1 billion calls to our API every month.
- Your organisation can have access to unique tools that support research integrity, such as incorporating Crossmark status buttons on your landing pages and PDFs, and using Similarity Check to screen for text-based plagiarism.
- You can vote in our board elections and/or stand for a seat, participating in the governance of Crossref. There are also many opportunities to get involved with the whole community, to co-create solutions to shared problems, help shape and influence our roadmap, and to join the discussions.
It’s so much more than just getting a DOI.