Not with Crossref? They invite your feedback
Crossref invites feedback from professional and scholarly publishers who are not their members including the African scholarly community. They aim to learn about the unique challenges you face in making research accessible across borders and disciplines, and how they can better support your needs. I thought you might be interested in sharing your perspective. There’s a form to let them know if you want to be contacted: Take part in the consultation.
Crossref partnered with a specialist company, Accucoms, to collect feedback on their behalf. They will respond to your expression of interest to organise a 30 minute call or exchange feedback via email at your convenience and in your preferred language.
In case you’re not sure who they are – Crossref is a not-for-profit membership organisation that builds infrastructure to help the scholarly community make research objects easy to find, cite, link, assess, and reuse – thanks to the rich network of openly available metadata maintained by its members.
This invitation is part of Crossref’s effort to consult with the community about ways to ensure accessibility and to tackle barriers to entry for all organisations, who may wish to join them. You can read more on their website.
Accucoms is an external party, who carries out the consultation on Crossref’s behalf. You can review their data privacy policy to learn how your information will be used.We look forward to hearing your feedback.
About Crossref
Crossref is a small, not-for-profit membership organisation supporting scholarly communications and research by providing infrastructure for ever-growing metadata records for journals, books, grants, and more. Our 20,000+ membership covers 160 countries and is made up of universities, societies, publishers, funders, and libraries – with a good few museums, pharma companies, and government bodies thrown in too. We are the largest of a handful of DOI (Digital Object Identifier) registration agencies ensuring the persistence of linking to and among scientific research outputs. We are working towards an ambitious vision of making available a rich network of metadata records illustrating relationships within the scholarly ecosystem – connecting works, researchers, institutions, funders etc.
Watch the recording
Johanssen Obanda was featured in our Open Science Webinar Series. You can watch the recording and learn more about Crossref’s services for scholarly publishing in Africa.
Crossref – Enabling African research item discoverability through the Research Nexus