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June / July 2024 newsletter
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Hello,
In this issue, we have a lot on the use of metadata.
Happy to hear your feedback.
Rosa
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The Crossref Grant Linking System (GLS) is 5 years old! 🎉 Since 2019 funders can create unique IDs for grants, helping connect research and support open science. We recently talked with funders worldwide about its benefits. Early adopters shared their experiences. Tools like ProposalCentral and Europe PMC, and most recently Fluxx, also integrate GLS, making it easier for funders to participate.
Learn the latest about GLS
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 Dominika explores the intricacies of metadata matching in scholarly publishing with a short series of blog posts. She’s highlighting the challenges of maintaining accurate metadata across different systems and the importance of quality metadata for research discoverability. Dominika has first explained what metadata matching is and why you may need it. More recently, she’s explored different matching strategies and talked about how these differ depending on the goal of the analysis. Expect to hear more on this topic in our future newsletters.
Explore your options for matching relationships within the scholarly record
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Patrick announces the release of the 2024 public data file with over 156 million Crossref metadata records. This year, new experimental formats like JSON-lines and SQLite are included for better usability. The data is available via Academic Torrents and Amazon S3.
Check out the full post for more info and download links
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Stewart discusses the challenges of managing Crossref's REST API traffic due to increased usage. The API handles about 1.8 billion requests monthly, and performance issues have arisen. To improve this, we plan to balance traffic across different user pools and adjust rate limits.
Details on these changes
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Euan Adie, Founder and Director of Overton, in conversation with Luis Motilla, explains how Overton uses the Crossref API to connect policy documents with the scholarly record. Overton gathers and analyzes metadata to link government documents to academic work. This helps researchers see how their work influences policy.
More on Overton's process and its impact on research and policy
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