King Abdulaziz University

Crossref membership

KAU holds two Crossref memberships in its own name. Member 2709, "King Abdulaziz University Scientific Publishing Centre", operates DOI prefix 10.4197 with 1,920 registered DOIs of which 358 are current — the university's own publishing programme. Member 53473, "King Abdulaziz University - DIGITAL COMMONS JOURNALS", covers the same journals as delivered through Elsevier's platform. KAU is also registered in the Crossref Funder Registry under Funder ID 501100004054. Both memberships verified live at HTTP 200 on 2026-09-01.

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Registry
https://api.crossref.org/members/2709
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Registry
https://api.crossref.org/members/53473
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Conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kau/refs/heads/main/conformance/kau-conformance.yml

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: kau:crossref
name: Crossref membership
x-operator: registry
x-operator-basis: An identifier registry King Abdulaziz University is registered in, not a vendor platform
  and not a contract of KAU's. Crossref's own API is never saved here; the membership is.
description: KAU holds two Crossref memberships in its own name. Member 2709, "King Abdulaziz University
  Scientific Publishing Centre", operates DOI prefix 10.4197 with 1,920 registered DOIs of which 358 are
  current — the university's own publishing programme. Member 53473, "King Abdulaziz University - DIGITAL
  COMMONS JOURNALS", covers the same journals as delivered through Elsevier's platform. KAU is also registered
  in the Crossref Funder Registry under Funder ID 501100004054. Both memberships verified live at HTTP
  200 on 2026-09-01.
humanURL: https://api.crossref.org/members/2709
tags:
- DOI
- Crossref
- Scholarly Publishing
properties:
- type: Registry
  url: https://api.crossref.org/members/2709
- type: Registry
  url: https://api.crossref.org/members/53473
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/kau-conformance.yml