Crossref is a not-for-profit membership organization based in Lynnfield, MA that aims to improve scholarly communications by making research objects easily discoverable, citable, linkable, assessable, and reusable. They advocate for the unrestricted availability of abstracts of scholarly publications and encourage scholarly publishers to open their abstracts and submit them to Crossref. They also develop strategies for discovering relationships between preprints and journal articles, making the resulting dataset publicly available for analysis.
With a focus on research integrity and community engagement, Crossref works with scholarly editors, publishers, and editorial organizations globally to develop sustained programs that help editors leverage rich metadata. They collaborate with organizations like DataCite and STM to promote linkability and citability of research data, track data citations, and establish persistent links between articles and datasets. Crossref operates as a global equitable membership organization, offering various membership options and hosting annual meetings and events to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing within the scholarly community.
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