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Patricia Feeney
2026 July 09

Schema 5.5 now available: adding CRediT, new record types for blogs and posters, and more

Research is rarely limited to a single contributor performing a single role. Behind every research output are people contributing in various ways: software development, data analyses, methodology design, and much more. Often, the same person contributes in several of these ways. Until now, Crossref metadata could only capture part of that picture, but this is changing with Schema 5.5.

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Leandro Contreras
2026 July 02

Take part in UX Research at Crossref

Through user experience research (UXR) initiatives that take into account our diverse membership and community, we can have a continuous, deeper understanding of the role of metadata in our members’ workflows, and ensure that our work continues to meet our community’s needs. Your support is the key to this process, and will positively impact the wider community - and if you’d like to start today, you can take part in our latest initiative: help us improve our Events page by sharing your thoughts on the page’s feedback form.

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Rosa Morais Clark
2026 June 30

Building, refining, and connecting: summary of our May 2026 community update

Our 2026 Community Update took place on 13 May. Two calls, one for the eastern and one for the western time zone, highlighted how our global community is growing, how we’re refining the metadata that supports trust in the scholarly record, and connecting records more effectively through our latest tools.

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RocĂ­o Gaudioso Pedraza
2026 June 26

From commitment to connection: 200,000 grants in the scholarly record

Funding is one of the key enablers of the research lifecycle, but has been one of the hardest parts of the scholarly record to identify, describe and connect. This is slowly changing as we have recently reached a very exciting milestone for Crossref’s Grant Linking System (GLS). What makes it remarkable is not only the numbers reached, but where the data comes from. Research funders, who joined Crossref as members, have actively contributed more than 200,000 grants to the Research Nexus (Figure 1).

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Executive committee

The Executive Committee is made up of the Chair, Treasurer and three other board members, one who has to be a representative of a non-profit member. The Executive committee has three major functions, to:

  1. Steer: create and review agendas for discussion and decision by the Board.
  2. Oversee: evaluate key performance indicators and suggest corrective actions between Board meetings.
  3. Expedite: take any decisions delegated to it by the board. This usually happens after full board discussion reaches a consensus on a major initiative and wants open details resolved before the next board meeting.

Executive Committee members

  • Marin Dacos, French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Space; and Open Edition (Chair)
  • James Phillpotts, Oxford University Press (Treasurer)
  • Rose L’Huillier, Elsevier
  • Rebecca Wambua, Distance, Open and e-Learning Practitioners’ Association of Kenya
  • Aaron Wood, American Psychological Association

Joined by

  • Ed Pentz, Executive Director, Crossref
  • Lucy Ofiesh, Chief Operating Officer, Crossref
  • Ginny Hendricks, Chief Program Officer, Crossref
  • Emily Cooke, Pierce Atwood (external legal counsel)

Last updated: 2020-April-10