Alocarea identificatorului DOI

DOI (Digital Object Identifier) ​​is an identifier standardized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to identify and disseminate academic, professional, and government information, such as books, journals, journal articles, conferences, academic events, reviews, research reports, datasets, and official publications.

Standardization/Characteristics

DOI is internationally standardized by ISO 26324, Digital Object Identifier System, 1 May 2012. The standard was developed by the International Organization for Standardization within its technical committee for identification and description, TC46/SC9. DOI is a URI registered under the info URI scheme specified by IETF RFC 4452. info:doi/ is the infoURI namespace of digital object identifiers. The DOI syntax is a NISO standard, first standardized in 2000, ANSI/NISO Z39.84-2005 Syntax for the Digital Object Identifier.

The DOI identifies metadata about the object, and the URL where the object is located. The DOI is actionable (points to the actual location of the object), persistent (when the location of the object (URL) changes, the DOI points to the new location), and interoperable (semantic interoperability and grouping mechanisms), using the Indexable Content Model for representing metadata.

A DOI consists of two parts, a prefix and a suffix, linked together in the prefix/suffix format. The prefix identifies the administrator of a DOI group, and the suffix represents the identifier of an object managed by the owner of the respective prefix. In our specific case, the DOI prefix was assigned to the company MultiMedia SRL through a subscription to the DOI registration agency, Crossref. MultiMedia, in turn, assigns suffixes to objects published on its main websites and academic journals (Media Online www.telework.ro, Cunoașterea Științifică www.cunoasterea.ro, Intelligence Info www.intelligenceinfo.org, IT & C www.internetmobile.ro) and Index Academic, https://www.indexacademic.ro..

Names can refer to objects at different levels of detail: so the DOI name can identify a journal, an individual issue of a journal, an individual article in the journal, or a single table within that article, depending on the requester’s option. Each of these identified objects will be characterized by certain specific metadata.

Although the IDF originally requested that the DOI be displayed as DOI: 10.58679/cs69498 CrossRef recommends displaying the full URL (e.g., https://doi.org/110.58679/cs69498) so that the DOI is directly clickable, and therefore favored in search engine searches, redirecting web access to the correct online location of the object. Otherwise, in the case of displaying it in its original form, a user who wants to reach the location of the object would have to copy the DOI prefix and suffix (e.g., 10.58679/cs69498), add https://doi.org, and paste it into the browser’s URL field with a click on Enter, to reach that location. To avoid these operations, it is possible to install a specific extension in the browser that automatically converts the DOI code into an actionable URL (hyperlink).

DOI associates metadata with objects, providing users with relevant information about the objects and their relationships. DOI is independent of the physical location of the object (URL) or other attributes that may change.

DOI content types

The DOI scheme is flexible, so that almost any type of object can be registered and shared openly through Crossref. Currently, members tend to register the following:

  • Books, chapters, and reference works: includes the book title and/or chapter-level records. Books can be registered as a monograph, series, or set.
  • Conference papers: information about a single conference, and records for each conference paper/proceeding.
  • Data sets: includes database records or collections.
  • Dissertations: includes single dissertations and theses, but not collections.
  • Grants: includes both direct funding and other types of support, such as the use of equipment and facilities.
  • Journals and articles: at the journal title and article level, and includes supplementary materials as components.
  • Peer reviews: any number of reviews, reports, or comments attached to any other work that has been registered with Crossref.
  • Pending Publications: A temporary placeholder record with minimal metadata, often used for embargoed works, where a DOI must be shared before the full content is available online.
  • Preprints and Posted Content: Includes preprints, eprints, working papers, reports, and other types of content that have been posted but not formally published.
  • Reports and Working Papers: These include content that is published and likely has an ISSN.
  • Standards: Includes publications from standards organizations.
  • You can also establish relationships between different research objects (such as preprints, translations, and datasets) in your metadata.

International DOI Foundation

The International DOI Foundation (IDF) is the developer and administrator of the DOI system, which it has been developing since 1998 (when it was created), launching the application in 2000.

The IDF is a non-profit organization created to support, develop, and promote the DOI system.

There are currently approximately 275 million DOI identifiers assigned worldwide, included in 155,000 DOI name prefixes. DOI identifiers resolve over one billion requests per month.

The assignment of identifiers (DOI prefixes) is done through registration agencies, which generally charge a fee for assigning a new DOI name; a portion of these fees are used to support the IDF.

Crossref

Crossref was founded in 1999 as a non-profit organization based in the US and is one of the official Digital Object Identifier (DOI) registration agencies. Crossref interconnects articles from a variety of content types, primarily academic, including journals, books, conference proceedings, working papers, technical reports, and datasets, across a variety of scientific, technical, and medical fields, including the social sciences and humanities.

Benefits of assigning a DOI

Your academic and professional research is much more visible when it is linked to the millions of other papers published by the academic community around the world. Metadata registered through DOIs are shared with hundreds of organizations in the academic ecosystem, making content more discoverable by the academic community.

DOI metadata allows for the collection of essential information about research results in a standard way across members, including abstracts, references, funding data, ORCID IDs, licensing information, clinical trial numbers, and full-text links. This metadata, along with DOI links for articles, books, research grants, preprints, etc., are shared with the academic ecosystem. Assigning a DOI creates a reciprocal linking agreement with a growing academic community of over 17,000 other members who register over 130 million research objects from 140 countries around the world.

By registering a DOI, you disseminate complete information about your research, such as citations, mentions, and other relationships, to thousands of tools and services that then leverage this information for search, discovery, and measurement through APIs. That data is also ingested by other systems—databases, library systems, and scholarly sharing networks—that use it to help their users find the research they are interested in. As a result, content registered with a DOI will be more easily found, cited, referenced, and used by other researchers.

If you have an ORCID ID, when you submit a paper or publish content, it offers more ways for scientists to discover your research. In this case, through a DOI, the assigned object is automatically registered with ORCID.

  • Other benefits of the DOI system:
  • Persistence, in case of changes to some attributes;
  • Interoperability with other data from other sources;
  • Extensibility through new features;
  • Independence of the publishing platform;
  • Dynamic updating of metadata, applications and services.

In the last decade, a series of reports have been published that quantify or confirm the benefits of DOI in various sectors.

Price for DOI allocation

For each DOI allocation, you pay only once, the DOI remains permanent. Prices include general subscriptions and payments for each DOI allocated to Crossref (which in turn makes payments to the International DOI Foundation), national taxes and duties, administration and maintenance of the generated DOI system, promotion and dissemination of objects.

Journal articles must be published in full in one of the journals managed by MultiMedia Publishing: Cunoașterea Științifică www.cunoasterea.ro, Intelligence Info www.intelligenceinfo.org, IT & C www.internetmobile.ro or Index Academic, https://www.indexacademic.ro. Any other object for which a DOI is assigned must have the metadata required for registration (title, summary, presentation, etc.) hosted on one of the sites managed by MultiMedia (magazines, or Online Media www.telework.ro). The object’s publication page must be unique for that object, and may include an external link:

For each object/article for which a DOI is assigned: 3 EUR

Requests for DOI assignment

For DOI assignment, you can contact us in the following ways:

MultiMedia SRL
Telephone/WhatsApp: +40 745 526 896
Email: contact@indexacademic.ro