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Do you want to see if a Crossref DOI (typically assigned to publications) refers to DataCite DOIs (typically assigned to data)? Here you go:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150121025249/http://api.labs.crossref.org/graph/doi/10.4319/lo.1997.42.1.0001

Conversely, do you want to see if a DataCite DOI refers to Crossref DOIs? Voilà:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150321190744/http://api.labs.crossref.org/graph/doi/10.1594/pangaea.185321

Background

“How can we effectively integrate data into the scholarly record?” This is the question that has, for the past few years, generated an unprecedented amount of handwringing on the part researchers, librarians, funders and publishers. Indeed, this week I am in Amsterdam to attend the 4th RDA plenary in which this topic will no doubt again garner a lot of deserved attention.

Remember when I said that the Wikipedia was the 8th largest referrer of DOI links to published research? This despite only a fraction of eligible references in the free encyclopaedia using DOIs.

We aim to fix that. Crossref and Wikimedia are launching a new initiative to better integrate scholarly literature in the world’s largest public knowledge space, Wikipedia.

This work will help promote standard links to scholarly references within Wikipedia, which persist over time by ensuring consistent use of DOIs and other citation identifiers in Wikipedia references. Crossref will support the development and maintenance of Wikipedia’s citation tools on Wikipedia. This work will include bug fixes and performance improvements for existing tools, extending the tools to enable Wikipedia contributors to more easily look up and insert DOIs, and providing a “linkback” mechanism that alerts relevant parties when a persistent identifier is used in a Wikipedia reference.

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Summary

You can use a new Crossref API to query all sorts of interesting things about who funded the research behind the content Crossref members publish.

Background

Back in May 2013 we launched Crossref’s FundRef service. It can be summarized like this:

• Crossref keeps and manages a canonical list of Funder Names (ephemeral) and associated identifiers (persistent).
• We encourage our members (or anybody, really- the list is available under A CC-Zero license waiver) to use this list for collecting information on who funded the research behind the content that our members publish.
• We then ask that our members deposit this data in their normal Crossref metadata deposits.

And that was cool.

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Crossref Labs loves to be the last to jump on an internet trend, so what better than than to combine the Doge meme with altmetrics?

Note: The API calls below have been superceeded with the development of the Event Data project. See the latest API documentation for equivalent functionality

Want to know how many times a Crossref DOI is cited by the Wikipedia?