As we approach the end of 2026, research integrity remains a critical focus for the scholarly publishing ecosystem: fast technological advancements are constantly pushing the boundaries of integrity, impacting how everyone in this space interacts with the scholarly record.
Crossref members register around 37,000 records daily. All this metadata is openly shared with the global scholarly community through our free APIs. We receive over two billion calls to our API each month, signalling its use by hundreds of tools and services worldwide, supporting the discovery and assessment of scholarly metadata. As part of a new series in our blog, we will spotlight the diversity of tools and integrations that rely on Crossref metadata to serve the scholarly community. In this initial post, we chat to Luca Foppiano, the developer and maintainer of Grobid1, to learn about how Grobid uses Crossref metadata to improve the extraction and enrichment of bibliographic information from scholarly PDFs.
On behalf of the Nominating Committee, I’m pleased to share the slate of candidates for the 2026 board election. Every active member organisation is invited to submit a ballot to elect the incoming board class.
We’re providing a summary of the board’s July 2026 meeting. The July board meeting is our only in-person meeting. The board gathers for two days of strategic thinking and long-range planning, as well as conducting annual board business. This year, we focused on allocating surplus funds we have on hand to invest in a three-year project to redesign the content system. In a related discussion, we decided to lower content registration fees starting in 2027 because we’ve had a demonstrated history of generating surpluses, exceeding what we need to run Crossref. We also discussed the board structure, as part of our regular review of stakeholder governance. And we conducted annual board business, such as approving the audited financial statements and reviewed our risk register and mitigation plans.
The resolutions are available on the dedicated section of our website, which also lists the members of the Board and offers further information about our governance.
We also managed to squeeze in watching a World Cup game over dinner.
The field or missing metadata report gives details on metadata completeness and can be accessed by selecting the icon next to each member name in the depositor report (access the depositor reports by type at the links below). The fields checked are volume, issue, page, author, article title, and Similarity Check URL.
Select a title to retrieve a list of DOIs for the title, and flagged fields for each DOI. For example, the DOIs in this report lack page and author information:
Although the deposit section of the schema specifies that some bibliographic metadata is optional for content registration purposes, we strongly encourage members to register comprehensive metadata for each item registered.
Page maintainer: Isaac Farley Last updated: 2024-July-19