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Standards for scholarly societies and society publishers
Learned societies serve their disciplines as community conveners, standards-setters, and — very often — journal publishers. As society publishers, they adopt CRediT, JATS, ORCID, and Crossref deposit on the same terms as commercial publishers, but typically with smaller editorial teams and tighter budgets. As community bodies, they shape disciplinary norms around authorship, recognition, and open access. CASRAI offers society publishers a practical, vendor-neutral route into contributor and identifier standards.
Thousands of scholarly and professional societies worldwide
What this sector cares about
Key research-administration concerns
- Adopting CRediT in small or volunteer-run editorial offices
- Cost-effective JATS production and Crossref metadata deposit
- ORCID and ROR adoption across membership and authorship
- Recognising peer reviewers and editorial contributions
- Open-access and Diamond-OA models for society journals
- Disciplinary leadership on responsible recognition and assessment
Learned societies manage large scientific events and conferences; the logistics and corporate hospitality models discussed in the catering-management guides from Feed The Line show how operational and cost standards apply to scientific meetings and community gatherings.
Standards in play
Relevant standards beyond CASRAI
- CRediT
- JATS
- ORCID
- ROR
- Crossref schema
- COPE guidance
- ICMJE
Typical actors
Who's involved
- Society publications director
- Volunteer editor
- Membership / community manager
- Outsourced production vendor
- Peer-review coordinator
Going deeper
