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Monitor Crossref papers with Relaylit

155M+ records covering journals, conference proceedings, books, and preprints with DOIs.

What Crossref covers

Crossref is the not-for-profit registry behind DOIs. It holds metadata for more than 155 million scholarly works — journal articles, conference papers, books, datasets, software, and preprints — submitted by 20,000+ publishers worldwide.

Crossref gives Relaylit authoritative metadata (authors, titles, DOIs, publication dates, references) for nearly every peer-reviewed work published in the last 25 years. It's the backbone for deduplication across databases and for clean citations in the digest.

How Relaylit uses Crossref

Relaylit queries Crossref alongside the other five sources, uses DOIs for deduplication, and enriches records with open-access flags and evidence-level tags before ranking.

Crossref does not provide end-user alerts. vs Relaylit

Crossref does not provide end-user alerts.

Crossref is a metadata registry, not a search interface. Researchers typically access it via tools like PubMed, Dimensions, or Scopus — none of which ship with AI-ranked digests.

Relaylit

Plain-language brief, not query syntax
Searches Crossref + 5 more databases in one pass
Deduplicates across sources
AI relevance score 0–100 per paper
Weekly, biweekly, monthly — or on-demand

Example briefs for Crossref

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"Conference papers on LLM evaluation at NeurIPS and ICLR, last 12 months."

"Cross-publisher reviews on venture capital and founder equity dilution."

"Book chapters on emerging economies and capital flow regulation."

FAQ

Why search Crossref if PubMed and Europe PMC already cover biomedical?

Crossref covers conference proceedings, books, monographs, and publisher-hosted articles that biomedical databases do not. For humanities, economics, engineering, or book chapters, Crossref is the most comprehensive source.

Does Crossref include open-access flags?

Yes, when publishers submit the metadata. Relaylit displays an open-access badge wherever Crossref or another source confirms the license.

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