Crossref 25th anniversary timeline

Crossref Certificate of Incorporation

Jan 18, 2000

Crossref’s founding date was January 18, 2000.

Crossref Surpasses 25 Million DOI Mark

Feb 13, 2007

Crossref announced today that over 25 million content items had been registered in the Crossref system since its inception in early 2000.

The Formation of CrossRef: A Short History

Jan 18, 2010

In celebration of Crossref’s 10th Anniversary in 2009, Crossref commissioned The Formation of Crossref: A Short History.

ORCID launches Crossref and DataCite Auto-Update

Oct 26, 2015

Researchers can now opt to have their ORCID record automatically updated when their work is made public.

Crossref now accepts preprints

Nov 2, 2016

Crossref completes infrastructure to support DOIs for preprints, and linking to best available version.

100,000,000 records - thank you!

Sep 26, 2018

We’d like to say thank you to all our members, without your commitment and contribution we would not be celebrating this significant milestone. It really is no small feat.

Free public data file of 112+ million Crossref records

Sep 4, 2020

People have been using our public, open APIs to collect data. To make it easier for them, we have made a free data file of the public elements from Crossref’s 112.5 million metadata records.

Crossref’s Board votes to adopt the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure

Dec 2, 2020

OSI is a list of sixteen commitments that will now guide the board, staff, and Crossref’s development as an organisation into the future.