What does DOI mean and why is it important?

2019-07-02

Hi this is Lou Peck from The International Bunch and I’m going to talk to you about what is a DOI in under 60 seconds. DOI stands for digital object identifier and is a unique number assigned by a registration agency (for example doi.org) to a range of different content. It provides a persistent URL to online content. Like ORCID provides researchers with a unique ID, DOIs provide a unique ID for published content. Publishers assign DOIs to content as part of the publishing process and they do t...

Hi this is Lou Peck from The International Bunch and I’m going to talk to you about what is a DOI in under 60 seconds.

DOI stands for digital object identifier and is a unique number assigned by a registration agency (for example doi.org) to a range of different content. It provides a persistent URL to online content.

Like ORCID provides researchers with a unique ID, DOIs provide a unique ID for published content.

Publishers assign DOIs to content as part of the publishing process and they do this through services like CrossRef.

DOIs start with a 10 and contain a prefix and suffix. The prefix is unique to the organization assigning it (for example the publisher or repositories like figshare).

You’ll find DOIs used in citations and by a number of services like Kudos and Altmetric to expose article metadata and show altmetrics relating to the article to demonstrate impact.

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