Crossref New Articles Screensaver
The Crossref New Articles screensaver streams real newly-registered scholarly journal articles as they're reported. It is free, runs in your browser, and ESC exits.
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How the Crossref New Articles screensaver works
The background pipeline polls Crossref's own public API — the DOI registry used by most scholarly publishers — every few minutes for new records.
Each new item eases up into its slot at the bottom of the list as it arrives.
A header shows a live/connecting indicator and the last update time.
No key is required for this key-less public endpoint.
What counts as a Crossref journal article
Crossref is a not-for-profit organisation founded in 2000 by scientific societies and publishers, and a DOI registration agency. Its members create DOI records that persistently identify and describe their work, depositing metadata that Crossref shares openly through free APIs, with no sign-up needed. The screensaver reads the newest records of the journal-article type, one of many work types the API serves, alongside books, grants, preprints, datasets and more.
Because registration happens at or near publication, the stream is a live cross-section of what scholarly publishers are releasing, and it is broad across fields. It is the scholarly article feed rather than a preprint or dataset one, since those are separate record types.
Two details are worth knowing when you read the list. The time shown is when the DOI record was registered, which is not necessarily the date printed on the article. And a registered DOI means a publisher has deposited the metadata, not that the article's findings are correct; a DOI identifies a work, it does not vouch for its quality.
A worked example
A real recent item scrolls into view with its details, then eases upward as newer ones arrive behind it.
Settings & tips
- Crossref is the DOI registration agency most academic publishers use.
- Accent recolours the header and highlights.
- New DOIs appear here within minutes of registration.
Frequently asked questions
- Is this real data?
- Yes — it's read live from Crossref's own public API, the DOI registry used by most scholarly publishers.
- Is a key needed?
- No. This is a fully key-less public API.
- How often does it refresh?
- The pipeline polls for new records every few minutes.
- Is it free?
- Yes — free, no download, in your browser.
- Does every journal article in the world show up here?
- Only those registered with Crossref. Articles from journals that use a different DOI agency, or no DOI at all, will not appear.
- Why does the publisher name sometimes differ from the journal's brand?
- The feed shows the organisation that registered the DOI, which can be a parent company, a platform or a society rather than the name on the journal's cover.