Regarding CROSSREF linking of references of the articles

Feature Requests
1

Subject: Regarding CROSSREF linking of references of the articles.

We are using OJS for our journal. We have uploaded references of articles as required in OJS. We would like to know how to link this references with DOI/crossref?
Will the crossref automatically link it or do we need to do anything else manually?

We also enable the crossref linking plugin but there is no such effect of this plugin in references.

OJS version: 3.3.0.8

Kindly guide us.

2

Hi,

the Crossref reference linking plugin works as expected if correctly configured.

It does two things:

  • Adds the references to the Crossref metadata upon deposit. If you added the references retrospectively to a publication that was already deposited at Crossref, you have to deposit the DOI/metadata again using the Crossref XML export plugin.
  • For references that have been specified without DOI, Crossref tries to find the DOI and the plugin adds it to the reference. For this, you have to add the scheduled task that is defined in the plugin directory to your crontab, e.g.
# Run Crossref Reference linking job every hour
0 * * * *        php {your_ojs_root_directory}/tools/runScheduledTasks.php plugins/generic/crossrefReferenceLinking/scheduledTasks.xml

As a general question: Did you configure scheduled tasks according to the OJS installation instructions?

To check, whether your references have been deposited correctly with Crossref, you can query the Crossref API with the DOI:
https://api.crossref.org/works/{doi}

As an example a publication with references on the landing page:
https://doi.org/10.55245/energeia.2021.001

API response (look for reference in the JSON response)
http://api.crossref.org/works/10.55245/energeia.2021.001

1 Like
3

As a feedback to the developer, @bozana : The Crossref Reference Linking plugin is a good plugin, but in my opinion, the feedback part that adds DOIs to the references comes too late in the publishing workflow, when the article already has been published and deposited to Crossref.

As a publisher, one would be interested to have all references’ DOIs before typesetting the article. Therefore, this feedback part should already work right after submission, or before copy-editing starts.

Therefore, we recommend publishers to use Simple Text Query which does the same. Could the feedback part of the plugin use this tool at an early stage?

1 Like
4

Could you explain where the plugin add the DOIs finded ? is it only inside OJS or an update of the CrossRef DOI registration is also made ?

For the experiment, I updated a DOI record where I have added some unstructured references, like this

<unstructured_citation>
Berg AT, Berkovic SF, Brodie MJ, Buchhalter J, Cross JH, van Emde Boas W, et al. Revised terminology and concepts for organization of seizures and epilepsies: Report of the ILAE Commission on Classification and Terminology, 2005-2009. Epilepsia. 2010;51(4):676‑85. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1528-1167.2010.02522.x
</unstructured_citation>

Before the update I have switch off the CrossrefReferenceLinking plugin. And after I was surprised to find that CrossRef, automatically, added the doi metadata:

{
        "key": "88",
        "doi-asserted-by": "crossref",
        "unstructured": "Engel J, International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE). A proposed diagnostic scheme for people with epileptic seizures and with epilepsy: report of the ILAE Task Force on Classification and Terminology. Epilepsia. 2001;42(6):796‑803. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1528-1157.2001.10401.x",
        "DOI": "10.1046/j.1528-1157.2001.10401.x"
}
5

Where did you update the DOI record? Directly via admin interface of Crossref?

Yes, the Crossref Reference Linking plugin updates the references field in OJS and adds the DOIs there. And if the Crossref DOI export is scheduled, the references then go into Crossref.

6

thank you so much for your answer @mpbraendle ,
yes I updated the DOI directly via the admin interface (doi.crossref.org).

We’ll definitely use the plugin to include the citation data in the DOI record, but I’m not sure we’ll use the “find DOI from textual reference” option, as it only impacts the Crossref XML record, while we also need the full citation data with DOIs for the PDF & HTML.

8

Hi @mlarrieu,

If the feature request is not relevant to you anymore, you can recover your vote clicking in the voting box.

Otherwise, I encourage you to create a new post following the Feature Request template, so others can understand better what are you asking for.

Cheers,
m.