Integration · Crossref
Crossref
Crossref · Crossref
Crossref is the official Digital Object Identifier (DOI) registration agency for scholarly content — the non-profit organisation that mints, resolves, and maintains DOIs for journal articles, books, conference papers, and other academic outputs. Beyond DOI registration, Crossref operates a suite of services: the Funder Registry (a controlled vocabulary of funding organisations), Cited-by linking (citation tracking), Similarity Check (Turnitin-powered plagiarism screening), Crossmark (record of corrections and retractions), and an open REST API holding over 150 million metadata records. Crossref is the primary channel through which CRediT contribution roles reach the permanent scholarly record — publishers deposit structured JATS XML containing per-author CRediT roles to Crossref at publication.
What to use from CASRAI
Touchpoints
- 01CRediT deposit — publishers submit JATS XML with <role vocab="credit" vocab-term-identifier="..."> elements; Crossref stores and exposes these in the REST API
- 02Funder Registry — provides persistent IDs for funding organisations, complementing the CASRAI Dictionary's funder-entity terms
- 03Crossref REST API (api.crossref.org/works) — retrieve CRediT roles for any DOI where the publisher has deposited them
- 04Crossmark — flags corrections and retractions; relevant to CASRAI Dictionary terms for research integrity and record-keeping
- 05ORCID integration — Crossref metadata carries ORCID iDs for contributors alongside CRediT roles
Setup
Integration steps
- 1Become a Crossref member (or work with a sponsoring member) if you are a publisher wishing to deposit DOIs
- 2Prepare JATS XML with contributor blocks including <role vocab="credit" vocab-term-identifier="[NISO URI]"> for each author role
- 3Submit the XML deposit to Crossref via the deposit API or admin interface
- 4Verify deposit success and CRediT role inclusion via api.crossref.org/works/{doi}?select=author
- 5For data consumers: query the Crossref REST API to retrieve CRediT roles for papers in a dataset or portfolio
