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Whereas a citation links one research article to another, events are a way to create links to locations such as news articles, data sets, Wikipedia entries, and social media mentions. We’ve collected events for several years and make them openly available via an API for anyone to access, as well as creating open logs of how we found each event. ...Find out more 2021 January 19 New public data file: 120+ million metadata records 2020 wasn’t all bad. In April of last year, we released our first public data file. Though Crossref metadata is always openly available––and our board recently cemented this by voting to adopt the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI)––we’ve decided to release an updated file. This will provide a more efficient way to get such a large volume of records. The file (JSON records, 102.6GB) is now available, with thanks once again to Academic Torrents. ...Find out more 2020 December 16 A tribute to our Kirsty Our colleague and friend, Kirsty Meddings, passed away peacefully on 10th December at home with her family, after a sudden and aggressive cancer. She was a huge part of Crossref, our culture, and our lives for the last twelve years. Kirsty Meddings is a name that almost everyone in scholarly publishing knows; she was part of a generation of Oxford women in publishing technology who have progressed through the industry, adapted to its changes, spotted new opportunities, and supported each other throughout. ...Find out more 2020 December 09 Fast, citable feedback: Peer reviews for preprints and other content types Crossref has supported depositing metadata for preprints since 2016 and peer reviews since 2018. Now we are putting the two together, in fact we will permit peer reviews to be registered for any content type. ...Find out more Menu search Fees Home> Fees What’s on this page Overview Fee principles Crossref’s fees should: Member fees Annual membership fees Annual membership fees (non-funders) Annual membership fees (funders) Content Registration fees Volume discounts: peer reviews Volume discounts: preprints (and other posted content) Volume discounts: book chapters and reference works Volume discounts: datasets and components Similarity Check fees Similarity Check annual service fee Similarity Check per-document fees Metadata Plus subscriber fees Sponsoring Organization fees Service Provider fees How to pay us Got a question? Overview We have different fees for different kinds of accounts including members of different sizes and kinds, and for non-member and member services. For all members, we also have fees for registering different content types such as journal articles, books, peer reviews, research grants, preprints, and so on. Our Membership & Fees Committee regularly reviews the fees and makes recommendations to our Board. We haven’t increased the regular annual membership or content registration fees in over twelve years. Fee principles In July 2019 our board voted to approve the following principles to inform all future fee modeling and decisions. Crossref’s fees should: Enable us to fulfil our mission to make research outputs easy to find, cite, link, assess, and reuse Encourage best practice and discourage bad practice, as our policies and obligations advise Be non-discriminatory, encouraging broad participation from organizations of all sizes and types Support the long-term persistence of our services and infrastructure, so long as relevant and valuable to the community Deliver value to our members Be transparent and openly available, recommended by the Membership & Fees Committee and approved by the board Be the same for all, not discounted or negotiated individually, to ensure fairness Be independent of our members’ own business models Not always be necessary (e.g., new content types are not usually separate services) Be based on providing services not metadata Member fees If you want to get a Crossref DOI prefix for your organization so you can create unique and persistent links and distribute metadata through us, you’ll need to become a member. You’ll be joining over 13k other members linking to each other using persistent links, your metadata will be distributed to thousands of other organizations in the scholarly communications world and you’ll be able to vote in and stand for our board elections. All our members pay an annual fee at the beginning of each calendar year plus a one-time fee for each content item registered. We also have some other services for members that have separate fees. Annual membership fees When you first apply to join Crossref, you’ll receive a pro-rated Membership Order for the remainder of that calendar year. So—depending on when you join—you’ll only pay for the remaining months of that year. Then, in the following January, you’ll receive an invoice for the whole of that calendar year, and will continue to receive invoices every subsequent January. Our membership fees are tiered, depending on the annual revenue or spending of your organization. (Please note: your membership fee gives you access to our services, but DOES NOT include content registration. There are separate content registration fees payable.) Annual membership fees (non-funders) Our membership fees for non-funders are tiered depending on the publishing revenue or expenses of your organization. Please select your tier from the table below, and use the higher number of either: Total annual publishing revenue from all the divisions of your organization (the member is considered to be the largest legal entity) for all types of activities (advertising, sales, subscriptions, databases, article charges, membership dues, etc). Or, if no publishing revenue then: Total annual publishing operations expenses including (but not limited to) staff costs, hosting, outsourcing, consulting, typesetting, etc. Total publishing revenue or expenses Annual membership fee USD 500 million USD 50,000 Alongside your annual membership fee, you’ll also receive quarterly invoices for the content you register. Annual membership fees (funders) Since 2019, funders are able to register DOIs for the research grants they have awarded. Their annual membership fees are lower than for all other members, but their grant registration fees are higher. Funder fees are tiered depending on your annual award value. Total annual award value (USD) Annual membership fee < 500k USD 200 0.5-2 million USD 400 2.1-10 million USD 600 10.1-500 million USD 800 500.1 million - 1 billion USD 1,000 > 1 billion USD 1,200 Content Registration fees Content Registration (metadata deposit) fees are one-time fees for the initial registration of content with us. There are no fees for updating the metadata for registered content. These fees are usually billed quarterly in arrears. We accept the following content: Journals and journal articles Books, book chapters, and reference works Conference proceedings and papers Preprints Peer Reviews Standards Technical reports and working papers Theses and dissertations Components (sub-items of journal, book, or conference content, such as figures, tables, graphs, data) Datasets and database entries Funding grants (including awards and use of facilities/equipment) There are different fees for different content types and some fees are different depending on the publication date of the content. Content types indicated with a * have volume discounts available - the fees in the table give the starting point for the volume discounts, and later tables give more detail. Content type Registration fee per current record Registration fee per backfile record Journal articles, book titles, conference proceedings and conference papers, technical reports and working papers, theses and dissertations USD 1.00 USD 0.15 Peer Reviews (registered by the title owner)* USD 0.25 USD 0.25 Peer Reviews (registered by not the title owner)* USD 1.00 USD 1.00 Grants USD 2.00 USD 0.30 Preprints* USD 0.25 USD 0.15 Book Chapters* USD 0.25 USD 0.15 Standards* USD 0.15 USD 0.15 Databases and datasets* USD 0.06 USD 0.06 Components* USD 0.06 USD 0.06 Note: “Current” content includes the current calendar year + the previous two calendar years (so for content registered in 2021 this is those with publication/award dates of 2021, 2020, 2019). “Backfile” is for anything earlier than that (so in 2021, that will be content published/awarded in 2018 or before). Volume discounts: peer reviews If you register multiple peer reviews for the same article, then volume discounts apply. The prices and discounts are different depending on whether you are the publisher of the article being reviewed. Volume discounts don’t apply across reviews for different articles. Registered by title publisher Total number of registered DOIs per article Registration fee per record (current and backfile) First peer review against single article USD 0.25 Second and all further peer reviews against same article USD 0.00 Registered by not the title publisher Total number of registered DOIs per article Registration fee per record (current and backfile) First peer review against single article USD 1.00 Second peer review against same article USD 0.25 Third and all further peer review against same article USD 0.00 Volume discounts: preprints (and other posted content) Total number of registered DOIs per quarter Registration fee per record (current) Registration fee per record (backfile) 0-1000 USD 0.25 USD 0.15 1,001 - 10,000 USD 0.25 USD 0.12 10,001 - 100,000 USD 0.25 USD 0.06 100,001 and up USD 0.25 USD 0.02 Volume discounts: book chapters and reference works If you’re depositing a lot of chapters or reference works for the same title in the same quarter year, the following discounts apply: Total number of registered DOIs per title per quarter Registration fee per record (current) Registration fee per record (backfile) 0-250 USD 0.25 USD 0.15 251-1,000 USD 0.15 USD 0.15 1,001-10,000 USD 0.12 USD 0.12 10,001-100,000 USD 0.06 USD 0.06 100,001 and up USD 0.02 USD 0.02 The higher tiers are for encyclopaedias, in case you’re wondering how a single title could possibly have 100,000 chapters! Volume discounts: datasets and components If you’re registering a lot of components or datasets for a single title in the same quarter year, the following discounts apply. There is no difference in price between current and backfile content for datasets and components. Total number of registered DOIs per title per quarter Registration fee per record (current and backfile) 1-10,000 USD 0.06 10,001-100,000 USD 0.03 100,001-1,000,000 USD 0.02 1,000,001-10,000,000 USD 0.01 10,000,001 and up USD 0.005 Similarity Check fees Members are able to participate in Similarity Check. As a participant, you pay an annual service fee to use Similarity Check plus a per document charge each time you check a document. Similarity Check annual service fee Members of Crossref can participate in Similarity Check. The service fee is 20% of your annual membership fee and is included in your annual membership fee invoice. Total annual revenue/expenses Crossref annual membership fee Similarity Check annual subscription fee USD 500 million USD 50,000 USD 10,000 Similarity Check per-document fees Each document run through Similarity Check is charged at a per-document-checking fee, and there are volume discounts. There is a separate invoice for Similarity Check document checking fees. Number of documents checked per year Price per document up to max 50 pages per document 1 - 100 USD 0.00 101 - 2,000 USD 0.75 2,001 - 25,000 USD 0.65 25,001 - 50,000 USD 0.55 50,001 - 100,000 USD 0.45 100,001 - 200,000 USD 0.30 >200,001 USD 0.25 Metadata Plus subscriber fees If you want to get and use our metadata, you don’t need to be a Crossref member. We have various free public APIs available that you can use without contacting us. We also offer the Metadata Plus service for an annual subscription fee. You’ll receive an annual fee for this service each January - but if you initially sign up during the year, your fees will be prorated for the remainder of that calendar year. The Metadata Plus service offers combined machine access to all available metadata in XML and JSON formats with additional features. This is also available openly via our Public APIs. The Plus service offers extra guarantees and features. Please select your tier from the table below, using one of the following criteria: For commercial organizations, the subscriber is considered to be the largest legal entity. The fee tier is selected based on the total annual revenue of all the divisions of your organization for all activities. For government agencies, universities, and not-for-profits, the subscriber is considered to be the agency or department applying for the service. The fee tier is selected based on whichever is the higher between your total annual income, if any, or alternatively the total annual funding received. Total annual revenue or income or funding Annual fee USD 25 million USD 44,000 You don’t have to tell us your total revenue/income/funding, just the category you are in. Let us know if you’re not sure. Sponsoring Organization fees If you’re an organization who works on behalf of groups of smaller organizations that want to register content with Crossref, you’ll be set up as a Sponsoring Organization. Sponsors work directly with us in order to provide administrative, technical and—if applicable—language support to the communities they work with. The annual membership fee you pay as a Sponsor is based on the total annual publications revenue, income or funding of all the organizations you support, whichever is higher. Total annual revenue or income or funding Annual fee USD 500 million USD 50,000 Each quarter you will also be sent an invoice for any content items that have been registered by the organizations that you sponsor. The charges are listed by each organization’s prefix on the invoice. There are different fees for different content types and the fees are also different depending on the publication date of the content. You will be asked to recategorize your annual fee at the end of every year, as the number of sponsoring members you represent grows. Service Provider fees Service providers such as hosting platforms pay an annual flat fee of USD 2,000.00. How to pay us We usually send out invoices by email to your named billing contact. The email will include full payment details including account numbers, but here are the basic payment methods. Please note we can only accept payment in US dollars. Credit card payments are made via our payment portal. If you don’t already have a username and password for our payment portal, please contact billing@crossref.org. Please note: your username and password for the payment portal is different from the username and password you use to register your content with us. Bank transfers/wires and Automated Clearing House (ACH) - please add USD 35 for wire transfer fee. Checks from banks - we prefer checks drawn on US banks. If you are sending payment from a USD bank account outside the US, please add USD 50 to your payment to cover processing fees. Please mail checks, with a copy of the invoice or with the invoice number referenced on the check, to: Crossref, PO BOX 719, Lynnfield, MA 01940. If you have not been receiving invoices, please contact us to update the email address for your account. We recommend you give us a generic departmental email address such as accounts@company.org to avoid emails bouncing back from the accounts of colleagues who have left your organization. Thank you! Got a question? There’s more information about when you’ll be billed and answers to many billing FAQs here. Do contact our member support team if you have any further questions. Page owner: Ginny Hendricks   |   Last updated 2019-March-15 You are Crossref Join the community Get email updates News Blog Labs Contact Apply Get help Dashboard Member obligations Truths Annual report Committees Governance The content of this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License Privacy