Just to talk to the July and August figures – some publishers uploaded conference proceedings for large conferences which artificially inflated the figures for those months, so you can see that growth is steady nonethless. When I started, we were seeing around 20,000 uploads each month, so the growth in the past 2.5 years has been substantial. Growth – more members and more usage and a better database – moving towards on submission, but it is a per publisher and per journal approach.Not just STM! Very comprehensive database - can see list of titles on our website. Publishers including Wiley, ACS, PeerJ, F1000 Research. We see about 4/5 new publishers join every month and some of these have quite niche content so that’s great – it makes the database more valuable. CrossRef currently has relationships with over 5000 publishers, so you can see that publisher participation isn’t yet comprehensive but it is growing quickly. The progress of CrossCheck to date and to talk about the database.
People can submit questions via the chat window that’s part of the webinar software. Shiv will cover points 2, 3 and 4 and I’ll take people through the rest and we’ll have questions at the end. Since September, Shiv has been the CrossCheck Account Manager at iParadigms, responsible for managing the relationship between the two parties, liaising with publishers on indexing (and matching issues) and getting feedback from them on the service.
Rachael Lammey – Product Manager for CrossCheck at CrossRef. Housekeeping Introductions (what will be covered is in the next slide).