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Ginny Hendricks
2025 December 18

Highlights of a very busy year: our 2025 annual report

As we finish celebrating our 25th anniversary, we can look back on a truly transformational year, defined by the successful delivery of several long-planned, foundational projects—as well as updates to our teams, services, and fees—that position Crossref for success over the next quarter century as essential open scholarly infrastructure. In our update at the end of 2024, we highlighted that we had restructured our leadership team and paused some projects. The changes made in 2024 positioned us for a year of getting things done in 2025. We launched cross-functional programs, modernised our systems, strengthened connections with our growing global community, and streamlined a bunch of technical and business operations while continuing to grow our staff, members, content, relationships, and community connections.

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Rosa Morais Clark
2025 December 17

Twenty-five years of Crossref: reflections from the 2025 annual meeting and board election

Crossref turned twenty-five this year, and our 2025 Annual Meeting became more than a celebration—it was a shared moment to reflect on how far open scholarly infrastructure has come and where we, as a community, are heading next.

Over two days in October, hundreds of participants joined online and in local satellite meetings in Madrid, Nairobi, Medan, Bogotá, Washington D.C., and London––a reminder that our community spans the globe. The meetings offered updates, community highlights, and a look at what’s ahead for our shared metadata network––including plans to connect funders, platforms, and AI tools across the global research ecosystem.

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RocĂ­o Gaudioso Pedraza
2025 December 15

Wellcome and Europe PMC: supporting Open Research through open metadata

In my latest conversations with research funders, I talked with Hannah Hope, Open Research Lead at Wellcome, and Melissa Harrison, Team Leader of Literature Services at Europe PMC. Wellcome and Europe PMC are working together to realise the potential of funding metadata and the Crossref Grant Linking System for, among other things, programmatic grantee reporting. In this blog, we explore how this partnership works and how the Crossref Grant Linking System is supporting Wellcome in realising their Open Science vision.

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Kornelia Korzec
2025 December 11

Some things are big because they are small – the new fee tier for Crossref members takes effect

In January 2026, our new annual membership fee tier takes effect. The new tier is US$200 for member organisations that operate on publishing revenue or expenses (whichever is higher) of up to US$1,000 annually. We announced the Board’s decision, making it possible in July, and––as you can infer from Amanda’s latest blog––this is the first such change to the annual membership fee tiers in close to 20 years!

The new fee tier resulted from the consultation process and fees review undertaken as part of the Resourcing Crossref for Future Sustainability program, carried out with the help of our Membership and Fees Committee (made up of representatives from member organisations and community partners). The program is ongoing, and the new fee tier, intended to make Crossref membership more accessible, is one of the first changes it helped us determine.

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Metadata Advisory Group

The purpose of the Crossref Metadata Advisory Group is to provide Crossref with advice and insight to help shape our metadata development as we broaden the metadata we collect and outputs we support to better align with the Research Nexus vision. Group participants will help shape metadata development at Crossref, and will discuss potential new metadata to adopt, best practices, and the overall needs of metadata providers and users.

Subgroups or working groups may be formed to address specific topics raised in advisory group meetings.

What we are working on

The Metadata Advisory Group reviews items on our Metadata Development roadmap and has formed working groups concentrating on:

  • Multilingual metadata
  • Subjects and keywords
  • Relationships

If you have suggestions for new metadata to add or would like more information about the advisory group, participate in our Community Forum or contact Patricia Feeney

How the group works

The group is comprised of Crossref members, users, and other interested parties with expertise in Crossref and related metadata. The group will be led by Crossref facilitators. Advisory group members commit to attend quarterly meetings via conference call, and may choose to send a named proxy if they are not available. Meeting notes will be circulated to all by the facilitator. With the exception of Crossref staff, the group will be limited to one representative from each participating organisation, unless particular agenda items or topics call for domain expertise from specific colleagues or departments. Members are, however, free to discuss the information shared during meetings with colleagues or any external party.

The schedule of meetings is at the discretion of the facilitators and may vary depending on whether there are relevant topics for discussion but are usually held three - four times per year. Notes are circulated by the facilitator after each call, and any members who were unable to attend a call are asked to ensure they read these and take note of any action items.

Members are asked not to invite colleagues or any external party to join Advisory Group meetings unless they have discussed this with the facilitators prior to the call. This ensures a consistency in development approach and a level of fluency during meetings.

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