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June - July 2025 Newsletter
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Hello,
In this issue, we share a couple of firsts! But first, you’ll find reminders about the scheduled downtime on 8th-9th of July, and the amendments to membership terms. Then we invite you to meet the winners of the Crossref Metadata Awards, share an update on what’s happening with our members in Colombia, and a recap of our first-ever Metadata Sprint. Finally, this is our first newsletter to have DOIs for all our posts, and you can learn more about that too.
Don’t miss our anniversary Annual Meeting this year! Mark your calendar for #Crossref2025 on 22-23 October!
As always, I welcome your feedback.
Rosa
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We’ll be taking all services offline for up to 24 hours—from 21:00 UTC on 8 July to 21:00 UTC on 9 July 2025—as we complete our move to the cloud.
During this time, all tools and services will be unavailable, but DOIs will continue to resolve.
Subscribe to updates at status.crossref.org
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Our bylaws and membership terms have been recently updated, to bring both documents up-to-date with current processes for suspending and revoking membership, and reviewing those decisions. It’s also an important step towards being more explicit about what “Member Practices” should look like in terms of preserving the integrity of the scholarly record.
Review the updated terms
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To celebrate our 25th anniversary, we launched the Crossref Metadata Awards to recognize members who go above and beyond in their metadata contributions. These awards highlight the importance of accurate, open, and complete metadata in supporting research visibility and discovery. The initiative forms part of our 25th anniversary celebrations.
We’re proud to showcase this year’s recipients and hope their efforts inspire others to keep improving metadata quality.
Meet the six inaugural winners
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Con más de 240 organizaciones miembros y cinco patrocinadores activos, Colombia se destaca como uno de nuestros países más comprometidos en Latinoamérica. Puede obtener más información en nuestro reciente blog bilingüe, basado en las opiniones de la comunidad.
Agradecemos a nuestros miembros y socios en Colombia y esperamos ampliar nuestra colaboración en los próximos años.
Descubra por qué los metadatos son importantes para los miembros en Colombia
English version
With over 240 member organizations and five active sponsors, Colombia stands out as one of our most engaged countries in Latin America. You can learn more from our recent bilingual blog, based on voices from the community.
We’re grateful to our members and partners in Colombia and look forward to growing our collaboration in the years ahead.
Discover why metadata matters for members in Colombia
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Community is central to everything we do at Crossref. In April, we held our first Metadata Sprint in Madrid, Spain. From the initial overwhelming number of expressions of interest, we were challenged to select a couple of dozens of participants to join us in a focused, hands-on, and collaborative exploration of our open, member-curated metadata. Over the course of just two days, 26 people worked on twelve distinct initiatives. In his recent blog, Luis Montilla shared the learnings and outcomes of the event.
Learn what emerged from the Sprint
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An increasing number of researchers are using blogs to share early insights, explore new ideas, and reflect on ongoing work. At Crossref, we believe these posts are part of the scholarly conversation and should be treated that way. That’s why we’ve started assigning DOIs and metadata to our blog posts as a part of our effort to include more diverse content types in the research nexus.
Find out how it is done
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