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Kornelia Korzec
2026 July 20

Why PID strategies need more than PIDs: our first position paper

PID strategies are being written around the world right now, and the decisions being made will shape the scholarly record for decades. After 25 years running open scholarly infrastructure—now on behalf of 25,000 members in 167 countries—Crossref has an informed perspective on what those decisions should ideally rest on. Today we’re setting it out in our’s first position paper: Persistent identifiers in research infrastructure policy: the need for a holistic approach. You can read it online or download the PDF; it’s a 16-minute read.

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Patricia Feeney
2026 July 09

Schema 5.5 now available: adding CRediT, new record types for blogs and posters, and more

Research is rarely limited to a single contributor performing a single role. Behind every research output are people contributing in various ways: software development, data analyses, methodology design, and much more. Often, the same person contributes in several of these ways. Until now, Crossref metadata could only capture part of that picture, but this is changing with Schema 5.5.

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Leandro Contreras
2026 July 02

Take part in UX Research at Crossref

Through user experience research (UXR) initiatives that take into account our diverse membership and community, we can have a continuous, deeper understanding of the role of metadata in our members’ workflows, and ensure that our work continues to meet our community’s needs. Your support is the key to this process, and will positively impact the wider community - and if you’d like to start today, you can take part in our latest initiative: help us improve our Events page by sharing your thoughts on the page’s feedback form.

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Rosa Morais Clark
2026 June 30

Building, refining, and connecting: summary of our May 2026 community update

Our 2026 Community Update took place on 13 May. Two calls, one for the eastern and one for the western time zone, highlighted how our global community is growing, how we’re refining the metadata that supports trust in the scholarly record, and connecting records more effectively through our latest tools.

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Funder advisory group

The Funder Advisory Group is primarily made-up by representatives of our funder members, and prospective members, as well as a smaller group of representatives of related initiatives. They meet online, and participate in a mailing group, to discuss Crossref developments, advise us on our policies and processes, discuss changes to the broader landscape and share knowledge and best practices among them. The Advisory Group helps us make our vision of an interconnected Research Nexus a reality.

In 2025, the group:

Crossref continues to enhance the Grant Linking System for the benefit of funders and the broader research community; the group meets three times a year online to advance this goal.

If you are a funder and would like to stay in touch with Crossref’s GLS and other related work you can join our email distribution list. Read the group Terms of Reference.

Chair and facilitator: RocĂ­o Gaudioso Pedraza, Crossref

  • Elizabeth Agee, DOE, USA
  • Guntram Bauer, Human Frontier Science Program, France
  • Hans de Jonge, NWO (Dutch Research Council), Netherlands
  • Patricia Feeney, Crossref
  • Kiley Goldstein, The ALS Association, USA
  • Hannah Hope, Wellcome, UK
  • Melissa Harrison, EMBL-EBI, UK
  • Cátia Laranjeira, Foundation for Science and Technology, Portual
  • Katharina Rieck, Austrian Science Fund, Austria
  • Shawna Sadler, ORCID

Original working group participants

A big thanks to the group of volunteers who at various stages jumped in to help make the registration of grants a reality.

Links & more information

Please contact RocĂ­o Gaudioso Pedraza with any questions.

Page maintainer: RocĂ­o Gaudioso Pedraza
Last updated: 2021-February-07