Kherson State University joined the board elections CrossRef.

Our university is a member of the Publishers International Linking Association (PILA), which unites more than 500 publishers of scientific materials and is the owner and operator of CrossRef - an international register of scientific information materials and related metadata, based on DOI technology. All publications of periodicals of the university receive the international unique digital identifier DOI. Crossref simplifies scientific communication, search, citation, linking, evaluation of research results.

This year, Crossref is 20 years old, and despite the challenges in the world recently, the annual meeting of LIVE20 online was held on November 10. According to the organizers: "There were more guests than usual from 139 countries where members of the corporation live." The main topic of LIVE20 was the election to the board.

Maksym Vinnyk and Natella Arustamova, Director of the Scientific Library, who are the main contact persons from Kherson State University, joined the meeting from our university.