PILA Membership AgreementNew York • January 15th, 2014
Jurisdiction FiledJanuary 15th, 2014This membership agreement, version 5.2, and any duly executed addenda and any other attachments hereto (“Agreement”) sets forth the terms and conditions under which a qualified institution becomes a member of The Publishers International Linking Association, Inc. (“PILA”), a nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of New York, and doing business as CrossRef, subject to the approval of PILA. Membership in PILA is open to publishers of scholarly and professional content who have rights to transfer, manage and otherwise fulfill the obligations of this Agreement with respect to the content’s “Metadata” and, to the extent necessary, the content itself. Additional criteria for qualifying institutions, incorporated by reference, are available at http://www.crossref.org or successor sites (“PILA Site”). PILA and the Sponsoring Entity identified below have entered into a separate agreement whereby the Sponsoring Entity has been appointed to act on behalf of PILA, and to represent qualifi