Scholastica, a leading software solutions provider for academic journals, has released a new integration with Crossmark by Crossref, the industry standard mechanism for reporting updates to published research.
The Crossmark integration is now available to journals subscribed to the Scholastica Open Access Publishing Platform that are published by a Crossref member organization participating in the Crossmark service.
“Clearly communicating article updates and retractions is critical to maintaining the integrity of the scholarly record, and with this new Crossmark integration, Crossref member journals can ensure any updates they publish are cross-linked with the original article and reflected in their Crossref metadata,” said Scholastica CEO and Co-Founder Brian Cody. “It’s one more step towards Scholastica’s plans to keep building out our research integrity support, and we’re thrilled to expand our integrations with Crossref services.”
When Scholastica OA Publishing Platform customers participating in Crossmark enable the new integration, Scholastica will automatically apply a Crossmark button to all of their HTML article pages as well as any new PDF articles they have typeset by the Scholastica Production Service (and past articles by request). Users can then register Crossmark updates from the Scholastica platform, such as addenda, corrections, retractions, or expressions of concern. Journals can learn more about all the types of updates supported by Crossmark in this help document.
Crossmark updates registered through Scholastica will automatically sync with the Crossmark button on the associated article page and update metadata will be deposited into Crossref.
Speaking to Scholastica’s new integration, Lena Stoll, Program Lead at Crossref said, “Crossmark is an important service that allows publishers to record metadata related to retractions and corrections, and therefore supports publishers in their efforts to maintain the accuracy of the scholarly record. When the Crossmark button is displayed on articles, readers can simply click on it to quickly see whether an article has been updated after publication. By enabling users to record updates to articles, Scholastica’s integration of Crossmark will support efforts to uphold the integrity of the scholarly record and make this critical metadata available to readers and downstream services.”
