# McMaster University Library Crossref Membership

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/mcmaster/crossref/  
**Provider:** McMaster University — https://apis.io/providers/mcmaster/  
**Documentation:** https://www.crossref.org/

McMaster University Library Crossref Membership is one of 8 APIs that [McMaster University](https://apis.io/providers/mcmaster/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Crossref, DOI, Persistent Identifiers, Registry Membership, and Scholarly Communication.

McMaster University Library's Crossref membership, under which it mints DOIs on its own prefix 10.15173 for library-published scholarship. A publication record in the McMaster Experts API bearing this prefix was minted under McMaster's own membership rather than a commercial publisher's. Recorded as a registry membership; the Crossref API is Crossref's contract.

## Machine-readable artifacts (1)

- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/mcmaster/refs/heads/main/conformance/mcmaster-conformance.yml

## Other McMaster University APIs (7)

- [McMaster Experts API](https://apis.io/apis/mcmaster/experts-api/)
- [MacSphere Institutional Repository](https://apis.io/apis/mcmaster/macsphere/)
- [McMaster University Shibboleth Identity Provider](https://apis.io/apis/mcmaster/shibboleth-idp/)
- [McMaster API Service Developer Portal](https://apis.io/apis/mcmaster/developer-portal/)
- [McMaster University Dataverse on Borealis](https://apis.io/apis/mcmaster/borealis-dataverse/)
- [McMaster University DataCite Registration](https://apis.io/apis/mcmaster/datacite/)
- [McMaster University ROR Registration](https://apis.io/apis/mcmaster/ror/)

## Tags

Crossref, DOI, Persistent Identifiers, Registry Membership, Scholarly Communication

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/mcmaster/crossref/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/mcmaster/.