The document discusses how Crossref metadata helps researchers find and track information. Crossref collects metadata like titles, authors, and references from publishers and makes it available via APIs and tools. Many organizations use this metadata for search, discovery, author profiling, and funding tracking. Crossref is working to expand the metadata to include items like funder IDs, licenses, and ORCID IDs. This additional metadata would help tools like collaborative writing platforms and open data repositories that integrate Crossref data.