Ginny Hendricks is Chief Program Officer at Crossref, leading community, membership, and program/product functions, working with the board and the research community to ensure responsible and sustainable oversight of the Crossref ecosystem. Before Crossref, she ran ‘Ardent’ for a decade, consulting within scholarly communications on awareness and growth strategies, product launches, and building global communities. She instigated Metadata 20/20, co-founded Scholarly Social and FORCE11’s Upstream, and has helped create and develop several open infrastructure initiatives, including ROR and POSI. She serves as Treasurer of the DOI Foundation, represents the international community on the Board of African Journals Online (AJOL), and works to encourage more effective open metadata practices as part of the Steering Committee of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information. Ginny is a stickler for good manners, a lover of words, and when she’s not gardening, is still looking for a good shabu-shabu spot in London.
Ginny Hendricks, Thursday, Jan 8, 2026
In FeesMember BriefingGrant Linking SystemResearch FundersResearch Nexus
We are pleased to announce that—effective 1st January 2026—we have made two changes to grant record registration fees that aim to accelerate adoption of Crossref’s Grant Linking System (GLS) and provide a two-year window of opportunity to increase the number and availability of open persistent grant identifiers and boost the matching of relationships with research objects.
Ginny Hendricks, Thursday, Dec 18, 2025
In Annual ReportCollaborationCommunityFinanceSustainabilityMembershipMetadataResearch NexusStaffStrategy
As we finish celebrating our 25th anniversary, we can look back on a truly transformational year, defined by the successful delivery of several long-planned, foundational projects—as well as updates to our teams, services, and fees—that position Crossref for success over the next quarter century as essential open scholarly infrastructure. In our update at the end of 2024, we highlighted that we had restructured our leadership team and paused some projects. The changes made in 2024 positioned us for a year of getting things done in 2025. We launched cross-functional programs, modernised our systems, strengthened connections with our growing global community, and streamlined a bunch of technical and business operations while continuing to grow our staff, members, content, relationships, and community connections.
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In January 2026, our new annual membership fee tier takes effect. The new tier is US$200 for member organisations that operate on publishing revenue or expenses (whichever is higher) of up to US$1,000 annually. We announced the Boardâs decision, making it possible in July, andââas you can infer from Amandaâs latest blogââthis is the first such change to the annual membership fee tiers in close to 20 years!
Kornelia Korzec, Tuesday, Oct 21, 2025
Wednesday 22nd October 2025—Crossref, the open scholarly infrastructure nonprofit, today releases an enhanced dashboard showing metadata coverage and individual organisationsâ contributions to documenting the process and outputs of scientific research in the open. The tool helps research-performing, funding, and publishing organisations identify gaps in open research information, and provides supporting evidence for movements like the Barcelona Declaration for Open Research Information, which encourages more substantial commitment to stewarding and enriching the scholarly record through open metadata.
In 2022, we wrote a blog post âRethinking staff travel, meetings, and eventsâ outlining our new approach to staff travel, meetings, and events with the goal of not going back to ânormalâ after the pandemic and said that in the future we would report on our efforts to balance online and virtual events, work life balance for staff, and track our carbon emissions. In December 2024, we wrote a blog post, âSummary of the environmental impact of Crossref,â that gave an overview of 2023 and provided the first report on our carbon emissions. Our report on 2023 only just made it into 2024, so we are happy to report on 2024 a little sooner in the year.
