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January - March 2025 newsletter
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Hello,
Crossref turned 25 this year, and we’re celebrating all year long—with you.
Stay tuned for ways you can all get involved! Read on for updates about our API, our GEM program, and how to get involved with celebrations
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Crossref turns 25!
For 25 years, the Crossref community has worked together to make research more connected, transparent, and accessible. Since our registration on the 18th January, 2000, Crossref has grown into a global, community-driven organization with over 21,000 members across 159 countries. This anniversary celebrates our growing and diverse community; it’s not just about where we’ve been, but where we’re going. With new initiatives like API Metadata Sprints and the Crossref Metadata Awards, we’re deepening our commitment to inclusivity, innovation, and community-led progress. Join us as we celebrate our shared achievements and shape the future of open scholarly infrastructure—together.
 Click to watch messages from the community.
As part of our 25th-anniversary, enjoy celebratory videos from community members. We’ll share more in the coming weeks. If you have a message to share too, you can send us your own, or post it to us on Bluesky or LinkedIn with #CrossrefAt25.
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We're hosting a community update on May 7, 2025, with sessions at 8:00 AM UTC and 15:00 UTC, held online. The talks will cover key updates, including metadata schema changes, report on our first Metadata Sprint, API and helper tool updates, and the first ever edition of Crossref Metadata Awards.
Register now.
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Join us in celebrating metadata excellence
On Wednesday, May 7, we will honour the contributions of our members with the inaugural Crossref Metadata Awards. The awards, which recognise metadata excellence and enrichment, are part of our ongoing commitment to enable the co-creation of the Research Nexus, our community's vision of an open, interconnected network of relationships that makes research objects easier to find, cite, link, assess, and reuse.
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Retraction Watch retractions are now part of the Crossref REST API, which makes accessing data on retracted research easier. This is the first time Crossref has added third-party data to its API, improving transparency in research. Retraction Watch collects and checks retraction data from sources like PubMed and publishers, sharing updates in CSV format. Users can now see Retraction Watch entries alongside Crossref member retractions. This partnership aims to make retraction information widely available and support research integrity.
Read the blog for more details
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The Global Equitable Membership (GEM) Program continues to grow, making Crossref membership more accessible in the least economically advantaged countries. In 2024, 127 new organizations joined, bringing the total to 458 members across 36 countries. We welcomed our first members from Sierra Leone and Honduras and our first Sponsor in Bangladesh. Next, we look forward to an in-person event in Accra, Ghana, to connect with our growing community.
Read more about GEM
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We now support using Research Organization Registry (ROR) IDs for funder metadata. This helps streamline workflows by using a single open identifier for researcher affiliations and funding organizations. While Funder IDs remain available, ROR IDs offer a persistent, community-maintained identifier. Members can now deposit ROR IDs where they previously used Funder IDs, and this metadata is available via our API.
Learn more about using ROR IDs
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