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Crossref

External provider · listed in a pinned inventory of candidates. Not a Source Record.

What this page is

This is an external provider — a service that can help discover sources — listed in a pinned inventory of candidates. It is not a Source Record: no Counterpedia source identity, capture, or admission is attached to it, and nothing it returns becomes a source, evidence, or support by being returned.

State at a glance

Provider
Crossref crossref
Inventory status
Candidate
Adapter
Adapter landed

An adapter for this provider is merged into the integration codebase, as of the pinned snapshot. Implemented code only: it is not a statement about what Counterpedia has admitted, or about what public Search reaches.

Operational verification
Documentation pinned — not live-probed

Operational facts were pinned to the provider's own published documentation on the recorded date. They were not confirmed by a live call. Recorded 2026-10-01T00:00:00Z.

Corpus closure
Not evaluated

No corpus-closure ruling exists for this provider. This is neither a finding that its universe is incomplete nor that any corpus is closed over it.

Origin class / temporal semantics
Resolver · Unknown

What it can discover

As declared in the pinned inventory. These describe what the service claims to expose, not what Counterpedia holds or has verified.

Source families
  • Scholarly works
Provider kinds
  • Resolver
  • Metadata
  • Index
Capabilities
  • Native-ID resolution
  • Metadata lookup
Evidentiary classes the service may expose
  • Scholarly metadata
Counterpedia seams
  • Resolver provider — Resolution of a provider-native identifier.
  • Search provider — Discovery by query.
  • Registry reconciliation — Reconciliation against registry identifiers.

Seams are engineering fit only; none grants source status, standing, identity, support, or admission.

What this does not establish

  • That the provider's universe has been admitted to Counterpedia. A landed adapter shows that code exists; it does not show that any of the provider's records were acquired, verified, or admitted, or that public Search reaches the provider.
  • That the documented operational facts were confirmed by a live call. They were pinned to documentation, not probed.
  • Whether the provider's universe is complete, or that any Counterpedia corpus is closed over it. No closure ruling exists.
  • That anything this provider returns is a Counterpedia Source Record, retained bytes, or an identity.
  • That a result from this provider supports any claim, or carries standing or admission.
  • That listing this provider, counting it, or building an adapter for it widens Counterpedia's corpus or measures corpus closure.
  • Origin class is provenance topology, not a quality grade, and says nothing about independence from sources already used for a claim.

Operational facts (provider documentation)

Authentication
No key required. Public pool (none); Polite pool (include email via mailto param or User-Agent); Metadata Plus (Crossref-Plus-API-Token: Bearer <key>).
Rate limits
Per pool: Public 5/interval (concurrency 1); Polite 10/interval (concurrency 3); Plus 150/interval; limit+interval reported in x-rate-limit-* headers; HTTP 429 on exceed.
Rights
Almost no metadata is subject to copyright and may be used for any purpose (some abstracts may be publisher/author copyrighted).

Independence and scope notes

Verbatim from the producer inventory.

Independence
UNVERIFIED — origin independence against live claim families has not been established.
Scope and capability
UNVERIFIED — positive and negative scope must be pinned to provider evidence before adapter selection.

Relationship to Counterpedia

Source Atlas: this directory attaches no Source Record to this provider. Source Records keep their own capture and admission posture, and are never linked to a provider by name or host.

Provenance of this row

Provider
crossref
Inventory schema
si.source_service_inventory.v0.1
Inventory sha256
sha256:c55d8d36b83a8b83cc8cddcab58bdb8ee08b11c341c531f4d55a25995edd2977
This row (canonical sha256)
sha256:adf004b79f505e77dbda29086ff6d6f147c64f76959ef6e3ba0cc0f50bbdb505

A pinned snapshot, not a live read: it is regenerated deterministically from the producer inventory whose digest is shown above and can lag the producer. Implementation coordinates that the pinned record keeps for adapters (repository, file, and change references) are held in Counterpedia’s internal provenance record and are not shown on this public page.

Implemented by Counterpedia’s adapter

Two separate lists from two separate artifacts. What a service offers is not what an adapter implements, and neither list is derived from the other.

What the service offers (provider capabilities)
  • Native-ID resolution
  • Metadata lookup

From the pinned inventory. It describes the service, not any adapter.

What the landed adapter declares (implemented capabilities)
  • Search
  • Native-ID resolution

Landed adapter, manifest pinned

  • Offered by the service, not declared by the adapter: Metadata lookup.
  • Declared by the adapter, not listed for the service in the inventory: Search. The two lists come from different artifacts and are not required to agree.
Adapter manifest (canonical sha256)
sha256:6bd7bfefce33d139a654e6f81a91223da1acdb541abe8befdf78e0edc33ada30

The capability set the landed adapter itself declares, taken from its manifest as pinned at the same snapshot as the inventory. It states what the adapter declares, not that any call has run, succeeded, or returned anything.

Provider objects

Objects held by this provider can be given a stable address by the provider’s own identifier: Crossref work. An address is not a Source Record.

Addressable objects for Crossref