Metadata Integrations

Metadata Services

A journal’s entry into a relevant database increases the discoverability of publisher content. More importantly, the wider discoverability and high citation scores of a journal depend largely on its rich metadata integrations.

Journal metadata is very important for seamless integration into digital archives and databases. In an era where the dissemination of research and academic work is as important as the content itself, leveraging an integrated publishing system that utilizes DocX, XML, PDF, and LaTeX formats is not just an option—it’s a necessity for any forward-thinking publisher.

We have a technical team to work out the best solution for you. Regardless of which solution works best for you, we take care of all your metadata integrations and XML generations with no work on your part. Our Metadata Technical team will help you create and maintain high-quality XML metadata, deposit rich data to CrossRef, DOAJ, and other services.

Metadata services are available for books, journals, and conference content. Our integrated system transforms manuscripts from DocX to XML and PDF formats with ease, streamlining the publication process. This efficiency frees up time and resources, allowing your journal to focus on delivering high-quality content.

Brookfield Academic offers technology to advance scholarly publishing, providing expert solutions for versioning, open peer review, data linking, open citations, and more. Our metadata solutions are all centered on optimizing the full-text XML article files we produce for indexing and discovery with rich machine-readable metadata for references, funding details, CRediT roles (when input), persistent identifiers (PIDs) like DOIs, ORCID, and ROR IDs, and more. Our full-text XML is formatted in the JATS standard, ready for ingestion in academic archives and indexes, including the DOAJ, PubMed Central, and PubMed search.

Key Benefits of Our Metadata Integration Solutions:

• Seamless Online Publication: Quickly publish articles on your journal’s official website.
• CrossRef Integration: Effortlessly connect to CrossRef, generating accurate metadata and activating DOI links for each article.
• Citation Tracking: Enhance article visibility and citation tracking.
• High-Quality PDF Production: Our system also produces visually appealing, well-designed PDFs, ensuring your articles are presented in the best possible format.

XML Check and Enhancement

Brookfield Academic has developed a wide range of ways to introduce a publisher’s articles into the database with as little technical effort from the publisher as possible. Our goal with everyone we work with is to add the richest metadata possible about an article, or any publication record, to increase the chances that it will be found, read and recommended by the right researchers. Ideally, Brookfield Academic works with XML metadata in Dublin Core, JATS or BITS DTD. However, we are capable of handling many different states of metadata, or lack of metadata, by tailoring our metadata services to each customer’s individual needs.

CrossRef DOI Deposit

Brookfield Academic saves publishers time by depositing content to CrossRef, from first deposit to updating records to future content.

DOAJ Article Metadata Deposit

For the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), we can offer a similar metadata delivery service. Many Open Access journals are rigorously vetted and finally accepted into DOAJ but do not have the technical capacity to deposit article-level metadata into the database. Brookfield Academic can both add metadata from DOAJ, for those Open Access publishers who do not yet have CrossRef DOIs for their content, and deposit article metadata for journals that have been accepted into DOAJ.

Machine-Readable Open Access Licenses

Brookfield Academic is a good place to visualize how computers read and interpret publisher metadata, particularly relevant in the case of Open Access licenses. An “Open Access” filter on search results within the Brookfield Academic discovery environment defines only those articles as Open Access that have a standard machine-readable license correctly tagged in the metadata. How does your favorite OA journal check out? If your Open Access symbol is missing, let us know and we can work together to understand and correct the problem.

Google Scholar Indexing

Google Scholar requires a special set of metatags to be exposed to the search engine for efficient indexing. Not every website is immediately understood by the Google bots to contain academic content, which can cause some journals to miss out on the powerful Google discovery channel. Brookfield Academic works with Google Scholar to ensure that all hosted journals on Brookfield Academic are instantly and correctly indexed according to Google’s requirements and that rich metadata for all our customers of advanced indexing services is correctly picked up.

Abstracting & Indexing Services

Once rich metadata is stored in the Brookfield Academic database, we can package and digitally deliver it to a full range of A&I services. Beyond DOAJ, we currently have metadata delivery mechanisms in place for Dimensions, PubMed Central and Scopus. We are happy to work with publisher customers to set up delivery plans for them.

Long-Term Archiving

It is not uncommon for journals to cease publishing after a time for a whole variety of reasons. In these cases, long-term archiving is essential to secure the digital scholarly record. For publishers hosting their full-text articles on the Brookfield Academic platform, we provide long-term archiving with CLOCKSS to protect their content for future generations. We are also happy to deliver content to Portico or other archives.

If you would like to learn more about our metadata services, please contact our team: info@brookfieldacademic.com