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August-October 2025 newsletter
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Hi,
We have a lot to share in this issue! We’ll celebrate Crossref turning 25 at our online annual meeting. Voting is open for the 2025 Board Election, and we’ve got updates on our new PKP partnership, cloud migration, Metadata Awardees, and our 2024 carbon footprint report.
As always, I welcome your feedback.
Rosa
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Crossref is 25! 🎉 Join us online for the Crossref 2025 Annual Meeting & Board Election on October 22–23. Across two half-day sessions, we’ll celebrate our anniversary, hold the board election, and share updates from Crossref leadership, demos, community highlights, and discuss the potential of the Research Nexus with a panel of insightful speakers. You’ll also hear the latest on our finances, roadmap, metadata, and data science work.
Register now and join the celebration.
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The 2025 Crossref Board Election is now open. By casting your vote, you help shape the future direction of our community. This year, the Nominating Committee received 51 nominations for five open board seats—four for large members and one for small members. Hear more in a message from James Phillpotts, Chair of the Nominating Committee.
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Meet the candidates
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Crossref and the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) formalized a fresh collaboration focused on richer metadata, stronger interoperability, and better support for organizations using OJS (Open Journal Systems). The goal is to help more publishers register richer metadata more easily.
Learn more about our partnership with PKP
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Crossref migrated its core infrastructure from a physical data center to the cloud, aiming to reduce technical debt and improve scalability. This move helps strengthen resilience and flexibility. It’s a foundation for future growth.
Read how it went and what’s next
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Improving visibility through metadata: A look from CSIC Editorial — CSIC Editorial explains how they went from having almost no metadata coverage to reaching 40% in two years, and how this change is helping their journals gain greater visibility.
An eLife filled with possibility thanks to great metadata — eLife shares how rich metadata supports their open science workflows, enables interoperability, and opens doors for new use cases.
Raising the standard: GigaScience Press on metadata and discoverability — GigaScience Press discusses why they treat metadata as integral to discoverability and how they build it into their publishing workflows.
Metadata excellence among new members: La Salle University, Perú — La Salle University in Perú describes how, shortly after joining Crossref, they adopted improved metadata practices and customized OJS to support more comprehensive metadata deposits.
Read the stories behind the winners
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The first wave of changes resulting from the Resourcing Crossref for Future Sustainability program takes effect January 2026:
- a new $200 annual membership fee tier
- removal of volume discounts for content registration
- simplifying peer review record registration fees
Read more about these initial fee changes
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We’re making progress in tracking and reducing our environmental impact. Travel emissions remain lower than pre-pandemic levels, and we’ve gotten better at combining trips and balancing in-person, regional, and online meetings. There’s more work ahead, but each step helps us build a more sustainable way of connecting with our global community.
See how we’re tracking sustainability
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