2003 CrossRef Annual Member Meeting1

Strategic Discussion

Beyond Reference Linking?

September 16, 2003

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Coming in 2003-04

• Parameter passing

• Query Alerts (Forward matching)

• Forward Linking

• DOIs for journal titles

• Title authentication by MARC records and/or ISSN registry

• Multiple resolution

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CrossRef’s unique role

• Collective services

• Trusted third party

• Membership organization

• Business model neutral platform

• Shared space for consolidating publisher information

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CrossRef’s mission statement

• To provide services that bring the scholar to authoritative primary content, focusing on services that are best achieved through collective agreement by publishers

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Where to from here?

• How else can CrossRef members put to use and benefit from the existing collective platform for networking and information flow between publishers, and between publishers and third parties?

• We want your input!

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Possible strategic directions• Extensions to reference linking

– Linking other content types; ETD, gray literature, patents, data?

– Multiple resolution

• Access to content

– CrossRef Search

– Article purchase

• Clearinghouse of Information

– EZ proxy for off-site library users

– Metadata syndication

– OAI – harvesting of DOI data

– Exchange of serials information

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Your ideas here…