Lena joined Crossref in 2023. A chemist by training, she worked in editorial roles with a focus on STM book publishing before transitioning into software product management. Prior to joining Crossref, her focus as a Group Product Manager at Morressier was on building peer review workflows and content hosting tools. In 2024 Lena took on the expanded role of Program Lead, responsible for all our activities that encompass co-creation and responding to community trends, including research integrity and most front-end tools. Lena lives in Berlin, Germany, where she spends most of her spare time fostering an obsession with her dog that borders on the unhealthy.
Lena Stoll, Thursday, May 21, 2026
In AccessibilityCommunityCrossmarkDOIsMetadata ManagerTechnologyUser Interfaces
Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day, and accessibility has been on our minds lately. We’ve recently completed an internal audit of all our user interfaces, and have added a new accessibility page to our website, where you can find the accessibility documentation that we put together as part of the audit.
Lena Stoll, Thursday, Nov 6, 2025
In Content RegistrationInfrastructureMember BriefingPublishingStrategyMetadata Manager
TL;DR. Metadata Manager will be retired at the end of 2025. Over the past four years, we have been developing a new helper tool to replace it, and that tool has now reached a stage of maturity that means we will be able to switch off Metadata Manager by the end of the year.
Kornelia Korzec, Tuesday, Oct 21, 2025
Wednesday 22nd October 2025—Crossref, the open scholarly infrastructure nonprofit, today releases an enhanced dashboard showing metadata coverage and individual organisations’ contributions to documenting the process and outputs of scientific research in the open. The tool helps research-performing, funding, and publishing organisations identify gaps in open research information, and provides supporting evidence for movements like the Barcelona Declaration for Open Research Information, which encourages more substantial commitment to stewarding and enriching the scholarly record through open metadata.
Lena Stoll, Tuesday, Jun 24, 2025
In MetadataCollaborationContent RegistrationPersistenceRSSBlogs
If you are reading this blog on our website, you may have noticed that alongside each post we now list a Crossref DOI link, which was not the case a few months ago (though we have retroactively added DOIs to all older posts too). You can find the persistent link for this post right above this paragraph. Go on, click on it, we’ll wait.
We are looking for an organisation to perform an audit of, and propose changes to, the structure and information architecture underlying our website, with the aim of making it easier for everyone in our community to navigate the website and find the information they need.
