Overview
Service summary
Crossref makes content that members contribute available through a set of interfaces including human search interfaces and APIs. Metadata retrieval as a service powers a multitude of other services and applications in the scholarly space that rely on scholarly metadata.
Transformative influence
Eight properties drawn from IOI’s concept of transformative influence:
Community engagement
Three properties describing the relationship between an organization and its community in the form of the presence of:
Researcher comment
Crossref is a non-stock, not-for-profit membership organization with 501(c)(6) tax exempt status with the IRS. We have chosen to list its organizational model as standalone nonprofit and will explore adding additional context in future iterations.