This is the story of two libraries supporting one another to ensure physical preservation and broad access to great research collections. The first is the NOAA Library, an institution that […]
https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/27/two-libraries-two-sets-of-superpowers-the-internet-archive-and-the-noaa-library/
For scholarly publishers, the user has changed faster than the systems designed to serve them, and the gap between the two is where most of the difficult work is happening.
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https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/05/27/the-user-has-changed-has-scholarly-publishing/
Last Updated on May 26, 2026, 3:05 pm ET The ARL Daily Intelligence is the trusted source of news and analysis for library leaders and advocates. Released Monday through Thursday, the ARL Daily...
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In our May 2026 edition of "What’s New Online at the Library of Congress," we share updates to the Library's digital collections, volunteer transcriptions, datasets, and more. Click through for more!
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2026/05/new-loc-may-2026/
With CC Signals, Creative Commons wants to help authors put rules on use of their licensed content for AI training. The problem is, one of the licenses already permits free and unlimited reuse of that content, for any and all purposes. And the licenses are irrevocable.
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We’ve recently reached an important milestone for the research nexus: the works in our metadata corpus are now connected with over 2 billion citation links! This is a great opportunity to share a dedicated dataset and discuss why these are important for science.
The reference metadata is a lifeline of discoverability. Scholars use citations to critique and build on existing research. They acknowledge the contributions of others through references. Our members can then deposit those references as part of metadata with Crossref, and we use those to link the cited and citing objects. This results in complex thematic networks that can be explored by interested researchers. Many tools for research discovery use the linked reference metadata in Crossref to support searches of related content.
The citation links are derived from bibliographic references in the metadata of one work that include DOIs of materials it cites (scholarly works, data, code, etc.). It’s always best if the members can deposit these relationships in full. In a recent post, we shared that nearly half of these links are asserted by our members through metadata deposits, and the other half are created thanks to our automated matching. This form of metadata enrichment happens when members include some information about the references but without the DOI of the cited work, and it’s enough to automatically find and add that DOI. The enrichment supports making data more useful for the community.
The most important impact of citation links is the increased discoverability of connected works. Reference metadata is an important tool for improving visibility and readership of our members’ content. These links are also the foundation of our Cited-by service, which enables implementing members to display citation counts of the work they published on their landing pages.
The chart below shows the cumulative count of citations over time, by the created date of the citing DOI’s record. These include records linked by DOI either through member-submitted metadata or matched by Crossref, as well as records that are unmatched. Unmatched records can include records that we were unable to match with the information we have, but also records that truly have no DOI to link to. You can explore the full citation dataset of all 2 billion citation links between Crossref DOIs available now as a (somewhat hefty) download.
Cumulative count of references deposited to Crossref by created date of citing DOI
The push for open citation data is something that has unfolded over the last few decades, making more and more of these relationships public. Notably, the growth in citation links reflects not just the output of new scholarship, but also a sustained effort to extend coverage of the historical scholarly record. We can see evidence of this playing out over time by looking at our historical data—periodic snapshots of Crossref’s metadata going back to 2019. When comparing successive snapshots and examining the publication dates of citing and cited works, we can classify each newly appearing citation as either a new paper citation, or a retrospective one. A new citation is where the citing work was published since the previous snapshot, representing real growth in the scholarly record. A retrospective citation is where both papers already existed but the link between them had not yet been captured by Crossref, and these represent indexing catchup rather than new publishing activity.
The chart below shows the cumulative count of citations added in each category since 2019. In the early years of our data, retrospective backfill was the dominant source: the blue line climbs steeply from 2019 to 2021 as a large volume of previously uncaptured historical citation relationships entered the corpus. Over time, however, that rate of backfilling has levelled off. New paper citations, meanwhile, have grown steadily throughout the period, and by 2025 they surpassed the cumulative retrospective total. The open citation ecosystem continues recovering historical links, but the citation network’s growth is now increasingly driven by the natural momentum of scholarly publishing itself.
Cumulative citations added to Crossref by type, 2019–2026. Retrospective citations (blue) represent links to and from works that existed before the previous snapshot; new paper citations (green) come from works published since the last snapshot.
Combined with other metadata for more context, reference metadata supports bibliographic and meta-research on different aspects of the scholarly process, and can support judgements about research integrity and conflicts of interest.
Stereotypically, when talking about references, we consider links to published works (whether preprints, journal articles, or books). However all types of records in Crossref can be cited. Thanks to the changes in our latest schema, members can now signal the types of content that is being referenced. And with our new Data citations endpoint, the community can explore specifically links from Crossref-registered records to research data, including citation links to works within Crossref, as well as DataCite’s corpus.
Close to half of all records registered with Crossref still have none or not enough reference information to make such connections. We invite members to regular Metadata health-check webinars to support them in improving completeness of their records for increased transparency and visibility.
https://www.crossref.org/blog/two-billion-citation-links-in-crossref-help-research-travel-further/
The preprint linked below was recently shared on arXiv. Title Synthetic Sources?: Auditing Generative Search Engine Citations for Evidence of AI-Generated Sources Authors Mowafak Allaham Northwestern University Nicholas Diakopoulos Northwestern University Source via arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2605.23684 Abstract The growing accessibility of Large Language Models via conversational interfaces capable of responding to users’ questions by drawing […]
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https://www.infodocket.com/2026/05/25/preprint-synthetic-sources-auditing-generative-search-engine-citations-for-evidence-of-ai-generated-sources/
We are out of office for the US holiday. In the meantime, maybe peruse a phenomenal new live music archive....
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The research enterprise is undergoing a period of rapid change, shaped by several converging forces. In our work with researchers, administrators, and senior leaders across the country, we see firsthand how advances in artificial intelligence are changing how research is conducted and supported, even as shifts in federal funding policies introduce new uncertainties. At the […]
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https://sr.ithaka.org/blog/the-research-enterprise-in-transition/
The new version of the Brazilian Scientific Research Information Ecosystem (BrCris) aggregates approximately 16 million publications and 1.5 million people, strengthening it as a strategic infrastructure for Open Science in Brazil. Available only in portuguese. …Read More →
The post New Version of BrCris Expands the Visibility and Transparency of Brazilian Scientific Research first appeared on SciELO in Perspective.
https://blog.scielo.org/blog/2026/05/22/nova-versao-do-brcris/#new_tab
Today, we feature a friendly debate on the question: which parts of the research lifecycle should be more automated, and which require more of a human touch — and why?
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https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/05/22/guest-post-a-friendly-debate-where-automation-will-and-should-land-in-the-research-lifecycle/
The Crossref Nominating Committee is inviting expressions of interest to join the Board of Directors of Crossref for the term starting in January 2027. The committee will gather responses from those interested and create the slate of candidates that our membership will vote on in an election in September.
Expressions of interest will be due Monday, June 22, 2026
This is an exciting time to join the board, as we have a number of active projects underway. Our focus is on how our community and metadata can contribute to ensuring the integrity of the scholarly record. We are redesigning our content system to better serve the changing needs of our community. We’re broadening our metadata record to capture richer funding and institutional affiliations. We envision a future where the scholarly record prioritizes relationships between research outputs to build a holistic research nexus. The board helps guide this work.
The board is elected through the “one member, one vote” policy wherein every member organization of Crossref has a single vote to elect representatives to the Crossref board. Board terms are for three years, and this year, there are seven seats open for election.
The board maintains a balance of seats, with eight seats for smaller members and eight seats for larger members (based on total revenue to Crossref). This is an effort to ensure that the scholarly community’s diversity of experiences and perspectives is represented in decisions made at Crossref.
This year, we will elect one large seat (membership tiers $600 and above) and six small member seats (membership tiers $550 and below). You don’t need to specify which seat you are applying for; we will provide that information to the Nominating Committee.
The board election takes place online and will open in September, with results announced at the annual meeting on October 22nd. New members will begin their term in January 2027.
The Nominating Committee reviews the expressions of interest and selects a slate of candidates for election. This year’s committee includes:
Staff liaison: Lucy Ofiesh, Crossref
(*) indicates Crossref board member
Crossref’s services provide a central infrastructure for scholarly communications. Crossref’s board helps shape the future of our services and by extension, impacts the broader scholarly ecosystem. We are looking for board members to contribute their experience and perspective.
The role of the board at Crossref is to provide strategic and financial oversight of the organization, as well as guidance to the Executive Director and the executive team, with the key responsibilities being:
The board is representative of our membership base and guides the staff leadership team on trends affecting scholarly communications.
The work of the board takes place in board meetings and board committees. Board members attend four meetings each year that typically take place in January, March, July, and November. January, March, and November board meetings are held virtually, and all committee meetings take place virtually. The July meeting is in-person and takes place in a variety of international locations; travel support is provided when needed. Each board member sits on at least one Crossref committee. Care is taken to accommodate the wide range of time zones in which our board members live.
While the expressions of interest are specific to an individual, the seat that is elected to the board belongs to the member organization. The primary board member also names an alternate who may attend meetings in the event that the primary board member is unable to. There is no personal financial obligation to sit on the board. The member organization must remain in good standing.
Board members are expected to be comfortable assuming the responsibilities listed above and to prepare and participate in board meeting discussions.
Any active member of Crossref can apply to join the board. Crossref membership is open to organizations that produce content, such as academic presses, commercial publishers, standards organizations, and research funders.
The committee looks for skills and experience that will complement the rest of the board. Candidates from countries and regions not currently reflected on the board are strongly encouraged to apply. Successful candidates often have some or all of these characteristics:
The committee aims to build a slate that represents a range of professional backgrounds, global diversity, and organizational sizes and types
Any active member in good standing can apply for a seat on the board. This includes direct members, sponsored members, and GEM members. Sponsoring organisations, service providers, and Metadata Plus subscribers who are not also members are not eligible to sit on the board.
Applications will be reviewed by our Nominating Committee. We also gather internal information about the member organization, such as metadata habits, history with Crossref, any previous experience in Crossref working groups or community initiatives.
The committee will hold brief virtual interviews with the top candidates before finalising the slate of nominations.
The committee will announce the final slate of candidates in September and the online election will begin, culminating at the annual meeting at the end of October.
Please click here to submit your expression of interest.
The goal of the expressions of interest is to get to know the candidates. We will not use AI tools to evaluate your application. We ask that if you use AI tools to assist in writing your application that you please disclose how you’ve used them. We want to hear your original ideas, but understand the tools may be used to refine and polish your statement, provide support for translation, proofread for grammar, and improve readability.
Please contact me with any questions at voting@crossref.org
https://www.crossref.org/blog/express-your-interest-in-joining-our-board-of-directors/
Last Updated on May 26, 2026, 10:00 am ET member reps senior leaders Join the upcoming meetings of our Association Committees as they dig into Action Planning. This is...
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Late last year, we launched the Rural Student Success Network. The 17 institutions participating in this learning cohort will develop action plans to support student success in three priority areas: helping community college transfer students complete their bachelor’s degrees, enrolling and supporting adult learners, and aligning academic offerings with regional labor market needs.
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https://sr.ithaka.org/blog/the-rural-student-success-network-kicks-off/
Many thanks to Sage for allowing infoDOCKET to share the full text version of this article. Title Students’ Artificial Intelligence (AI) literacy: An Exploratory Study Authors Mor Deshen Ramat Gan Academic College, Israel Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel Noa Aharony Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel Source Journal of Librarianship and Information Science DOI: 10.1177/09610006261442178 […]
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https://www.infodocket.com/2026/05/21/new-journal-article-students-artificial-intelligence-ai-literacy-an-exploratory-study/
In honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, today's post shares results from an experiment with qualitative data analysis — demonstrating that, while AI can detect patterns, humans must decide what those patterns mean.
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https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/05/21/guest-post-when-ai-helps-write-research-what-happens-to-lived-experience/
Submitting a blog to the Rogue Scholar science blog archive requires filling out a simple form, and sometimes answering a few additional questions via email. In recent months I haven't caught up with the submissions and decided to implement a few changes.
Participating in Rogue Scholar doesn'
https://blog.front-matter.de/posts/changes-in-the-rogue-scholar-blog-submission-workflow/
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.
Of course we want to keep the barriers to participation in Crossref as low as possible for users with various disabilities. But also, more accessible tools work better for everyone. A person’s access needs can change really quickly: even if you consider yourself to be relatively able-bodied, you are only one minor inconvenience away from at least a temporary disability. All it takes is some dazzling sunlight hitting your eye or your phone screen, or perhaps your dog going after a rabbit in an awkward direction while you are holding the lead (ask me how I know!) - and before you know it, you will be relying on accessibility features to navigate the digital and/or physical world for a while.
An accessible user interface is one that you can navigate and interact with by various methods, including a mouse or touchpad, keyboard, screen reader, voice control, and other assistive technologies. It can be used on various screen sizes and supports zooming in or out without losing any content or functionality. It has sufficient colour contrast, doesn’t flash fast-moving images at you, and has a clear structure that can be understood by both humans and machines.
It is worth mentioning that we didn’t only start thinking about accessibility when we started tackling the full audit of our user interfaces in March 2026. For example, Patrick Vale has previously written in this blog about a browser extension he has created to improve the accessibility of DOI links anywhere on the Internet. And we have known for a long time that there were accessibility gaps in many of our tools, but we didn’t have this centrally documented anywhere.
When we did begin testing all our interfaces for compliance with level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.2) as part of the audit, we knew that some of what we would find was not going to be pretty. In the 26+ years of working with and for the scholarly community, Crossref has built countless tools and reports to offer to members and users, many of which we still maintain today. These are often decades old and have been built in a way that makes it virtually impossible to make them more accessible without rebuilding them entirely. So we know that we will continue to have accessibility gaps for the foreseeable future, but at least now we have a better idea of the scale of the challenge.
It’s also not all doom and gloom: more recently created user interfaces, such our new Metadata Manager, performed much better in the audit than legacy alternatives such as the web deposit form. We found a similar trend when looking at our report interfaces. To illustrate this, compare what happens when running the axe DevTools extension for Google Chrome on a member’s participation report - this is a user interface that was completely re-implemented in 2025. Doing this brings up 26 issues:
Meanwhile, the browsable title list, which has completed a few more trips around the sun, has 254 issues listed:
If you’ve read this far, I hope you are convinced that accessibility is more than just ticking boxes on a conformance report. But especially for a global community like ours, there are other, less technical barriers to participation that we have to consider. For example, language is a major accessibility factor: much of what we as Crossref staff write and say is in English. When we host community events, we enable captions, and we try to leave space for these captions at the bottom of our slides.
We have also started experimenting with simultaneous interpretation during our online events, such as our recent project showcase event for the 2026 metadata sprint in São Paulo. You can find recordings of this event in Spanish, Portuguese, and English on our YouTube channel to see the promising results of these efforts.
We are currently addressing the accessibility issues identified in our audit of the Crossmark service. Many Crossref members have implemented the Crossmark button and pop-up on their own platforms and websites, so we thought this was a great place to start the remediation efforts following our audit.
We are also in the process of redesigning our main website, www.crossref.org, following an information architecture review completed in 2025. Making changes to the design and navigation of our website will be the perfect opportunity to make our content not just more discoverable and more understandable, but also more accessible.
Clearly there is even more to be done, so watch this space for more updates on our accessibility roadmap and improvements. And if you have first-hand experience of using Crossref services and interfaces with assistive technologies, or you have other input or feedback you’d like to share, leave a comment below or start a discussion in our community forum.
Brewster Kahle was honored as a 2026 Computer History Museum Fellow in a gala event on April 25, 2026. Watch a video about Brewster’s achievements: Watch a congratulations message from […]
https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/20/brewster-kahle-receives-2026-computer-history-museum-fellow-award/
From an OpenAire Post: …AI is changing how research is discovered and used. A newer generation of systems, often called agentic AI, can reason across sources, plan tasks, follow relationships between entities, and support decisions based on structured evidence. For open scholarly infrastructures, this raises a clear question: can the systems that increasingly interpret scientific […]
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https://www.infodocket.com/2026/05/20/openaire-and-alien-intelligence-announce-partnership-to-bring-ai-agents-to-the-openaire-graph/
Research disciplines require institutions that create cohesion, uphold standards, and provide continuity over time. Scholarly societies are uniquely positioned to serve that role credibly and durably.
The post Why Scholarly Societies Must Compete Through Stewardship, Not Scale appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/05/20/why-scholarly-societies-must-compete-through-stewardship-not-scale/
Commemorate the 250th birthday of the United States through service! Join us for a webinar on Thursday, June 4, from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EDT to learn about The American Revolution in Context, a project of the Library of Congress volunteer transcription program, By the People.
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2026/05/btp-webinar-revolution/
We are pleased to welcome Todd Toler to Ithaka S+R as the inaugural practice lead for a new area of focused work on artificial intelligence in scholarly communication. The new practice area is grounded in a simple but powerful idea: that AI in research and publishing must be “scholar-ready," aligned with expectations for integrity, provenance, rights awareness, and transparency.
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https://sr.ithaka.org/blog/welcoming-todd-toler-to-ithaka-sr/
Publishers that lack a deliberate library relations strategy are making consequential decisions without important and useful community perspectives.
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https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/05/19/why-every-publisher-needs-a-library-relations-strategy/
Last Updated on May 21, 2026, 2:49 pm ET The ARL Daily Intelligence is the trusted source of news and analysis for library leaders and advocates. Released Monday through Thursday, the ARL Daily...
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Today the Rogue Scholar science blog archive is launching an OPML file export of all active blogs. OPML is the standard export format for blog feeds and includes the blog category and feed URL – Rogue Scholar uses the OpenAlex subject area subfield as category.
https://blog.front-matter.de/posts/launching-the-rogue-scholar-feed-opml-file-and-feed-reader/
Last Updated on May 18, 2026, 12:37 pm ET all in member libraries If you are interested in helping to shape how ARL develops an inclusive and engaging culture, and...
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From the Association of American Publishers (AAP): Today, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) released its StatShot report covering the first three months of 2026 reflecting reported revenue for Trade (Consumer Books), Education (combines PreK-12 Instructional Materials and Higher Education Course Materials), and Professional & Scholarly Publishing. Total revenues across all categories for the first […]
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https://www.infodocket.com/2026/05/18/association-of-american-publishers-aap-releases-statshot-report-for-first-quarter-2026-overall-industry-was-up-0-9-professional-scholarly-publishing-up-5-7/
From EDUCAUSE: The 2026 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report | Teaching and Learning Edition identifies the most influential trends and early signals shaping higher education teaching and learning over the next decade. Based on the work of an expert panel using the STEEP framework, the report highlights how artificial intelligence, enrollment pressures, policy shifts, and sustainability concerns are reshaping […]
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https://www.infodocket.com/2026/05/18/just-released-2026-educause-horizon-report-teaching-and-learning-edition/
The threat of zero-click search makes organizational brand more important than ever and presents a huge opportunity.
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Last Updated on May 15, 2026, 1:48 pm ET This week, Register of Copyrights and Director of the US Copyright Office Shira Perlmutter addressed several law and policy issues relevant...
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On 8 May 2026, during the Graduation Ceremony of the Executive Masters in Management of Research Infrastructures (EMMRI), OpenCitations was awarded the Certificate of Excellence in Research Infrastructure Leadership. This recognition was achieved through the participation of members of the OpenCitations team in the 2024–2026 class of the Excellence Programme for Research Infrastructures, an initiative designed to support research infrastructures in developing organisational competencies across their teams, fostering sustainable and effective leadership models. The OpenCitations participants included Director Silvio Peroni, CTO Ivan Heibi, Research … Continue reading OpenCitations has been awarded the Certificate of Excellence in Research Infrastructure Leadership
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Today we bring you a dose of Friday fun, with thanks to the National Trust.
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What does it mean to lead a library today? Every three years Ithaka S+R administers a survey of academic library deans and directors to better understand how they conceptualize their work—what they prioritize, how they make decisions, and how they align the library to their parent institution’s mission. Today, we are pleased to share findings from the 2025 cycle, which offer a current view of a library sector that is increasingly operating under pressure.
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US Library Survey 2025: Under Pressure was published today (May 14, 2026) by Ithaka S+R. The report was written by Ellen Carroll, Tracy Bergstrom, and Ioana G. Hulbert, From the Executive Summary: Key Findings Leaders are operating under sustained financial and staffing constraints. Mirroring previous cycles, the majority of respondents cite a lack of financial resources as […]
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https://www.infodocket.com/2026/05/14/new-from-ithaka-sr-us-library-survey-2025-under-pressure/
From the Library of Congress: Taylor Swift’s transformative pop album “1989,” Beyoncé’s standout “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It),” The Go-Go’s debut album “Beauty and the Beat,” Vince Gill’s signature “Go Rest High On That Mountain,” Weezer’s self-titled debut “Weezer (The Blue Album),” Chaka Khan’s crossover hit “I Feel for You,” and Broadway’s original […]
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A new report suggests the NIH's promised APC caps will reduce global OA spending. But so far, funder efforts to control publisher and author behavior have largely been ineffective. Here's why.
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For a funder with over thirty years of funding history, making all of their funding metadata openly available is no small undertaking. In this conversation, I chat with Guntram Bauer, Chief Scientific Officer at the Human Frontiers Science Program (HFSP), about how the organisation is working to register decades of grant data with Crossref, the challenges of linking historical awards to published research outputs, and what open, structured funding metadata means for accountability to member countries and the wider scientific community.
RGP: Why did HFSP join Crossref and decide to share its funding metadata openly?
GB: Accountability starts with openness and transparency. If we are not open as a global funding organisation, we can’t convey that message to our constituents, our grantees, and our community. Before we could share our metadata openly through Crossref, we would share our funding activities through annual reports with a simple list of awardees and projects. In the digital era there are new possibilities to do this better and demonstrate to our member countries what we do with the funds. For us, it is a very helpful way to fulfil our obligations and the due diligence that is expected of us.
We started registering decade-old grant metadata, something we had always wanted to do but that before the current waiver would have meant a big financial undertaking.
– Guntram Bauer, Chief Scientific Officer, Human Frontiers Science Program
RGP: How did you find integrating the Grant Linking System (GLS) within your existing workflows?
GB: It was very straightforward. We work with Proposal Central, through Altum, which also acts as our Crossref sponsor, to help HFSP handle grant operations and related metadata, which makes it all very easy. One thing we did think carefully about was what the grant landing page would look like: what information people would see when they clicked on a grant DOI. Before Altum, we couldn’t even add an ORCID to our workflows, let alone a Crossref grant DOI! Having structured metadata to support transparent reporting to our own supporting member countries has been very valuable.
This step was independent from our funding policies. Registering funding metadata and assigning Crossref grant DOIs was paralleled with informative campaigns and direct information to our awardees to inform them about the new way of acknowledging funding.
RGP: Can you tell us about HFSP’s experience registering historical grant data?
GB: When HFSP started working with Crossref to benefit from the Grant Linking System (GLS) and make our funding metadata openly available, we began by registering data about our fellowships. More recently, in the context of the newly introduced waiver for historical grant data, we started registering decade-old grant metadata, something we had always wanted to do but that before the current waiver would have meant a big financial undertaking.
RGP: Why are you so interested in registering historical grants?
GB: HFSP has been registering funding with Crossref for a while, and the recent announcement of the two-year waiver made us decide to make all our historical data available. That’s going back all the way to 1990! We have been doing it little by little. We are keen to introduce as much funding metadata as possible into the system, to improve our transparency, but also to add to the research nexus and be able to link our funding to outputs, even the decades-old ones.
RGP: Are there any challenges specific to registering historical grants?
GB: There are a couple. When registering a historical grant, from 2005 for example, the publications that came out of that funding couldn’t be linked to the Crossref grant DOI since it didn’t exist when it was published, so the connection is missing. This is one of the key added values to the GLS, which in our view is the ability to track the impact of funding. Additionally, grantees who were awarded their funding many years ago and are only now receiving a Crossref grant DOI may not be as primed as current grantees to use that DOI when acknowledging their outputs.
Encouraging recent grantees of their new Crossref grant DOI so they can start acknowledging their outputs is one thing. However, persuading earlier grantees to go back and inform publishers of a new grant DOI involves a lot of actors and many potential points of failure. How can those connections between grant DOIs and related outputs be established, beyond direct communication with grantees?
RGP: That is indeed a challenge that we are well aware of! What excites us going forward is matching those records back to historical outputs with automated strategies. These will increasingly allow us to match, connect, and insert relationships between published outputs and Crossref grant DOIs. This is only possible when both the output and the grant are registered with Crossref and there is enough funding metadata in the output record to make the match. The more metadata available about an award (such as award number and funder name) in the output’s metadata, the more matches we can make, and the more confident the community can be in them.
RGP: Is the GLS changing how you approach reporting or shifting the culture within the organisation?
GB: For us, it’s an evolving situation. There is definitely a demand from our member countries to be more open and transparent, for the accountability reasons we mentioned. As the only truly globally operating funder supporting basic rather than applied research, demonstrating our impact across such a diverse membership is not always straightforward. If anything, the GLS and Crossref grant DOIs can help us in making our reporting evidence-based and follow the impact of the funding.
We are very grateful to Guntram Bauer for his perspectives and insights.
https://www.crossref.org/blog/from-1990-to-today-connecting-hfsps-grant-history-to-the-research-nexus/
This is the April 2026 issue of the monthly newsletter from the Rogue Scholar science blog archive. The newsletter reports on new blogs that have joined the platform, important technical updates in Rogue Scholar infrastructure, community updates, and other news relevant to Rogue Scholar users.
https://blog.front-matter.de/posts/rogue-scholar-newsletter-april-2026/
ScholarOne saw a submission surge in the first quarter of 2026 — evidence that AI is increasing the strain on peer review's social contract with researchers.
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https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/05/13/guest-post-is-growth-always-good-news-2026-article-submission-surges/
The NSF and the NIH are making changes to their Data Management and Sharing Plan (DMSP) templates.
https://library.caltech.edu/blog/new-data-management-and-sharing-plan-templates
Last Updated on May 12, 2026, 3:19 pm ET The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) convened for its 188th meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee, at the end of April. Attended by...
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https://www.arl.org/blog/seven-takeaways-from-the-spring-2026-meeting-of-the-association-of-research-libraries/
From EveryLibrary Institute: As libraries across the United States rapidly adopt artificial intelligence tools and digital services, longstanding assumptions about patron confidentiality are being tested in new and urgent ways. “Library Patron Privacy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” is an analysis examining how existing state library privacy laws intersect with emerging AI technologies, third-party data […]
The post New Report From EveryLibrary Institute: “Library Patron Privacy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” appeared first on Library Journal infoDOCKET.
https://www.infodocket.com/2026/05/12/new-report-from-everylibrary-institute-library-patron-privacy-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence/
Ithaka S+R is excited to announce a new, three-year research project examining accessibility issues and disability services in higher education in prison programs. Made possible by funding from ECMC Foundation, this project will explore how accessibility considerations and disability services are implemented in carceral settings. It will also identify key barriers higher education institutions and […]
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https://sr.ithaka.org/blog/improving-accessibility-and-disability-services-in-higher-education-in-prison/
Ed. Note: Many thanks to Sage for removing the paywall and allowing infoDOCKET to share the full text of this article. The article linked below was recently published by the Journal of Librarianship and Information Science. Title Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Information Seeking: A Comparative Exploration of AI Chatbots, Search Engines, And Library Resources As […]
The post New Journal Article: “Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Information Seeking: A Comparative Exploration of AI Chatbots, Search Engines, and Library Resources as Information Sources Among University Students” appeared first on Library Journal infoDOCKET.
https://www.infodocket.com/2026/05/12/new-journal-article-artificial-intelligence-ai-and-information-seeking-a-comparative-exploration-of-ai-chatbots-search-engines-and-library-resources-as-information-sources-among-university-stu/
Today's guest post asserts that trust won’t be restored by "better messaging" alone, but via better incentives, more disciplined public communication, and really listening to the people who have walked away from us.
The post Guest Post — Restoring Trust in Science: What Would Make a Difference? appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/05/12/guest-post-restoring-trust-in-science-what-would-make-a-difference/
Last Updated on May 14, 2026, 4:35 pm ET The ARL Daily Intelligence is the trusted source of news and analysis for library leaders and advocates. Released Monday through Thursday, the ARL Daily...
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https://www.arl.org/daily-intelligence/arl-daily-intelligence-may-11-14/
Last year, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences engaged Ithaka S+R to conduct research on the state of the humanities in higher education. My colleagues Chelsea McCracken and Claire Baytaş led a series of focus groups with humanities department chairs to learn how they are adapting to the current climate of retrenchment and technological change. These focus groups yielded information about the perceived value of the humanities, efforts to promote student enrollment, the implications of AI for humanities teaching, and more.
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https://sr.ithaka.org/blog/the-state-of-the-humanities-in-higher-education/
From the Ottawa Citizen: Amidst a decline in physical book rentals and in-person visits to its 33 branches, the Ottawa Public Library is doubling down on a rebrand. One that positions it as a “third space” for clients. In its 2025 end-of-year report, the Ottawa Public Library (OPL) said the last year was spent laying the groundwork […]
The post Ontario: “Breaking Down the Ottawa Public Library’s Rebrand and Its Numbers” appeared first on Library Journal infoDOCKET.
https://www.infodocket.com/2026/05/11/ontario-breaking-down-the-ottawa-public-librarys-rebrand-and-its-numbers/
As publishers block the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine for unfounded concerns over AI scraping, hundreds of journalists have signed a public letter supporting the Wayback Machine and the importance of […]
https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/11/a-thank-you-to-journalists-supporting-the-wayback-machine/
Event Page Title Open Scholarly Information Systems: Status Quo, Challenges, Opportunities Authors Hannah Bast, Guillaume Cabanac, Paolo Manghi, Jian Wu, and Marcel R. Ackermann Source Dagstuhl Seminar DOI: 10.4230/DagRep.15.9.38 Abstract Over the past 30 years, a rich ecosystem of scholarly information systems has developed that openly provide their services to the scientific community. These systems […]
The post Report From Dagstuhl Seminar 25381: Open Scholarly Information Systems: Status Quo, Challenges, Opportunities appeared first on Library Journal infoDOCKET.
https://www.infodocket.com/2026/05/11/report-from-dagstuhl-seminar-25381-open-scholarly-information-systems-status-quo-challenges-opportunities/
To honor the UK's Mental Health Week, we take a look back at the Mental Health Monday posts in The Scholarly Kitchen with calls to action, practical tips, and tools for “taking ACTION.”
The post Mental Health Awareness Week: Revisiting Mental Health Mondays appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/05/11/mental-health-awareness-week-revisiting-mental-health-mondays/
Last Updated on May 8, 2026, 2:03 pm ET A January 2026 quick poll of ARL member libraries shows that the early enthusiasm about generative AI has largely settled into...
The post Tracking the AI Evolution in Research Libraries: Findings from ARL’s 2026 AI Quick Poll appeared first on Association of Research Libraries.
https://www.arl.org/blog/tracking-the-ai-evolution-in-research-libraries-findings-from-arls-2026-ai-quick-poll/
The text examines the growing perception of a decline in the quality of contemporary scientific output, situating this phenomenon within the context of institutional pressures—such as the “publish or perish” culture—and the potentially inappropriate use of artificial intelligence. Available only in portuguese.
The post Even standing on the shoulders of giants, science is taking a step backward first appeared on SciELO in Perspective.
https://blog.scielo.org/blog/2026/05/08/mesmo-sobre-ombros-de-gigantes-a-ciencia-vai-regredindo#new_tab
Today we announce The Scholarly Kitchen's new style guide for Chefs and guest bloggers alike.
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https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/05/08/announcing-the-scholarly-kitchens-style-guide/
From Retraction Watch: Fabricated citations in the biomedical literature have increased 12-fold in two years, according to an audit of nearly 2.5 million papers published as a letter to The Lancet today. The analysis of articles indexed in PubMed found that about one in 277 papers published in the first seven weeks of 2026 referenced a paper that didn’t […]
The post Report: “One in 277 PubMed-Indexed Papers In 2026 Shows Fabricated References, Says Analysis” appeared first on Library Journal infoDOCKET.
https://www.infodocket.com/2026/05/07/report-one-in-277-pubmed-indexed-papers-in-2026-shows-fabricated-references-says-analysis/
Before feeds, before algorithms, there was the Class of 1996: websites & organizations founded (or expanded) in 1996, like the Internet Archive. On the occasion of the Internet Archive’s 30th […]
https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/07/celebrating-thirty-years-of-the-internet-archive-with-the-class-of-1996/
With support from the Joyce Foundation and Strada Education Foundation, Ithaka S+R conducted what is, to our knowledge, the first causal study of how employers value online degrees from out-of-state institutions. The primary objectives of our research were to compare employer evaluations of job candidates who earned a bachelor’s degree online with those who earned a bachelor’s degree in person, and to assess whether and to what extent those evaluations varied depending on whether the degree-granting institution was in- or out-of-state.
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https://sr.ithaka.org/blog/employers-perceptions-of-online-credentials/
From The Guardian: André is part of a group of “data rescuers” who’ve banded together during Trump’s second term. They’ve been quietly racing to save hundreds of critical government datasets before they’re no longer available. Now known as the Data Rescue Project, it’s a grassroots network of more than 800 people around the world who spend […]
The post The Guardian: “‘Things Were Going Dark Left and Right’: The Race to Save US Government Datasets Before They’re Deleted” appeared first on Library Journal infoDOCKET.
https://www.infodocket.com/2026/05/07/the-guardian-things-were-going-dark-left-and-right-the-race-to-save-us-government-datasets-before-theyre-deleted/
Today's guest post proposes a method for identifying, measuring, and managing robotic usage of scholarly content.
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https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/05/07/guest-post-love-death-robots-scholarly-edition/
Across the past year, Ithaka S+R has worked with 58 institutions through our cohort projects to define and implement AI literacy. Following these successful engagements, we are launching an additional AI literacy cohort this summer, which will run on an accelerated timeline. Participants will collectively address two fundamental questions: What exactly is AI literacy? How can libraries, centers for teaching and learning, and other university units better support AI literacy for students and faculty?
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https://sr.ithaka.org/blog/defining-ai-literacy/
Thirty years ago, Brewster Kahle founded the Internet Archive with an ambitious goal: Universal Access to All Knowledge. Today, that mission continues to grow with an exciting new chapter: the […]
https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/06/internet-archive-switzerland-expanding-a-global-mission-to-preserve-knowledge/
In the latest episode of the Future Knowledge podcast, “Preserving the Web in the Age of AI,” Wayback Machine director Mark Graham, tech policy expert Mike Masnick, and media lawyer […]
https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/06/wayback-machine-director-we-are-collateral-damage-in-the-fight-between-ai-companies-and-publishers/
Today's post asks: If research is increasingly accessed through AI-generated summaries rather than via primary sources, then what does it mean to “engage with research” at all?
The post Zero-Click Readership: Are AI Overviews Changing the Way We Discover Research appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/05/06/zero-click-readership-are-ai-overviews-changing-the-way-we-discover-research/
We’re providing a summary of the board’s March 2026 meeting. At the meeting, the board reviewed progress in our key programs and initiatives, the strategic outlook for 2026, filled a vacancy on the Board, considered an additional legal entity for Crossref, and reviewed our governance structures. The resolutions are available on the dedicated section of our website, which also lists the members of the Board and offers further information about our governance.
The board voted unanimously to approve the minutes of the January 2026 board meeting.
The board voted unanimously to approve the agenda for the March 2026 meeting. The board then voted to approve the consent agenda, which includes a package of routine board business items.
Lisa Schiff of California Digital Library (CDL) stepped down from the board at the end of February, and CDL decided not to name a replacement. The board voted unanimously to take the most recent member election results and appoint Oscar Donde of Pan Africa Science Journal to fill the seat. Oscar will serve out the remaining years on CDL’s term, which is to the end of 2027.
Ed Pentz and Lucy Ofiesh presented a review of 2025, including our financial performance, member participation, and growth of metadata records, connections, and usage. Crossref ended 2025 in a healthy financial position, exceeding revenue by 6% and saving 3% on expenses as compared to the budget. Member participation and statistics on the metadata records are captured in our State of Research Nexus report.
We then turned the discussion to the strategic issues in focus for 2026. Ed discussed the projects in focus for each of the three program groups: Co-creation and Community Trends, Contributing to the Research Nexus, and Open and Sustainable Operations. Details of these programs can be found on the strategic agenda page and public roadmap.
The board discussed the ongoing work of the project known as Resourcing Crossref for Future Sustainability (RCFS). This multi-year effort, which began in 2023, aims to make our fees more accessible, equitable, and simpler to understand and operate. In January 2026, we rolled out a new, lower membership fee, removed little-used discounts that contributed to fee complexity, extended our GEM program to include zero-fee membership and content registration for 18 additional countries, and introduced a two-year fee waiver on back-year grants. In 2026, we are monitoring the effects of these changes and initiating the review of content registration fees.
We provided an update on community investments we’ve made in line with the use-of-surplus funds framework that the board adopted in November 2025. To date, Crossref has committed USD $447,000 to several organisations and initiatives that share our mission.
The board discussed the decision to broaden our operations by setting up an entity in Europe, specifically an AISBL (International Non-Profit Association) in Belgium. This entity will sit alongside our existing organization and share the same name, mission, and services. They will be connected through a managed agreement. This will help build organisational resiliency, create the capacity for future operations if needed, and reflect the global nature of our membership.
The board discussed the structure of the entities. The entity will be organized so that it may conduct business in the future in a way that maintains equal governance with the primary entity. Concurrently, the team is reviewing storing a back up of the system in the EU for redundancy purposes. A board discussion ensued, followed by a vote.
The board voted unanimously to approve proceeding with establishing a Crossref AISBL to sit alongside the primary entity and serve the goals described above.
Periodically, the board conducts a review of the organization’s stakeholder governance. The board discussed the strengths and areas for improvement in the current board structure and options to adjust it in the future. Discussions were preliminary to scope the review and will continue in more detail at the July board meeting.
There being no other business, the meeting was adjourned.
https://www.crossref.org/blog/march-2026-board-meeting-summary/