Fabienne has moved on from Crossref. Based in London, UK, Fabienne Michaud was a Product Manager at Crossref. She led our work on Similarity Check and the Open Funder Registry for three years. Fabienne is a chartered librarian who has worked in a variety of roles for over twenty years in academic, research and not-for-profit libraries. Before joining Crossref in April 2021, Fabienne was the Geological Society of London’s Head of Library and Information Services for eight years. Fabienne is Non Executive Director on the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) Board.
In May, we updated you on the latest changes and improvements to the new version of iThenticate and let you know that a new similarity report and AI writing detection tool were on the horizon.
On Wednesday 1 November 2023, Turnitin (who produce iThenticate) will be releasing a brand new similarity report and a free preview to their AI writing detection tool in iThenticate v2. The AI writing detection tool will be enabled by default and account administrators will be able to switch it off/on.
Amanda French, Thursday, Sep 7, 2023
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There is some overlap between the Open Funder Registry and the Research Organization Registry (ROR), and funders and publishers have been asking us whether they should use Open Funder Registry IDs or ROR IDs to identify funders when they appear in both registries. We aim to merge the two registries over time. We will ensure Crossref members can use ROR to simplify persistent identifier integrations, to register better metadata, and to help connect research outputs to research funders.
Ten years on from the launch of the Open Funder Registry (OFR, formerly FundRef), there is renewed interest in the potential of openly available funding metadata through Crossref. And with that: calls to improve the quality and completeness of that data. Currently, about 25% of Crossref records contain some kind of funding information. Over the years, this figure has grown steadily. A number of recent publications have shown, however, that there is considerable variation in the extent to which publishers deposit these data to Crossref. Technical but also business issues seem to lie at the root of this. Crossref - in close collaboration with the Dutch Research Council NWO and Sesame Open Science - brought together a group of 26 organisations from across the ecosystem to discuss the barriers and possible solutions. This blog presents some anonymized lessons learned.
In 2022, we flagged up some changes to Similarity Check, which were taking place in v2 of Turnitin’s iThenticate tool used by members participating in the service. We noted that further enhancements were planned, and want to highlight some changes that are coming very soon. These changes will affect functionality that is used by account administrators, and doesn’t affect the Similarity Reports themselves.
From Wednesday 3 May 2023, administrators of iThenticate v2 accounts will notice some changes to the interface and improvements to the Users, Groups, Integrations, Statistics and Paper Lookup sections.
Since we announced last September the launch of a new version of iThenticate, a number of you have upgraded and become familiar with iThenticate v2 and its new and improved features which include:
We’ve received some great feedback from iThenticate v2 users and user testers:
