With a little help from your Crossref friends: Better metadata

Key Points

• Crossref’s efforts aim to enhance data quality for better research outputs, and facilitate academic transparency.
• With improved metadata, the dissemination of research is streamlined, ensuring accurate information retrieval.
• Crossref provides tools and resources that address metadata challenges faced by publishers and researchers.
• The ongoing work by Crossref signifies a commitment to elevating the standards of metadata in scholarly communication.