WHO IS THE DOI FOUNDATION COMMUNITY?
We are an international community of communities bound by a common interest in persistent infrastructure. So far, we have welcomed agencies that manage communities spanning entertainment, standards, the built environment, natural history collections, scholarly communications, and research data.
Read more about our Registration Agencies and what they offer
WHAT IS THE DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER (DOI)?
A DOI name is a digital identifier of an object, any object — physical, digital, or abstract. DOIs solve a common problem: keeping track of things. Things can be matter, material, content, or activities.
Designed to be used by humans as well as machines, DOIs identify objects persistently. They allow things to be uniquely identified and accessed reliably. You know what you have, where it is, and others can track it too.
Read more about the identifier, its benefits, and how it’s used
The Rosenblum Award for Scholarly Publishing Impact
The DOI Foundation is delighted that the scholarly publishing community has chosen to honour Bruce Rosenblum. His work with Crossref on their metadata deposit schema and reference matching helped to build Crossref as a robust system that links research objects, entities, and actions, creating a lasting and reusable scholarly record.
We are very grateful to the award committee for recognising and celebrating the role of DOI infrastructure in the scholarly publishing ecosystem. It is easy to take infrastructure for granted, simply because it is there and it just works. However, it only works because of the hard work and dedication of people like Bruce and the spirit of collaboration between everyone involved.
It is a tribute to this spirit of collaboration and inclusivity, that over the years the DOI System has expanded beyond scholarly publishing community to applications in entertainment, standards, the built environment, natural history collections and, most recently, talent identity. Since its inception 25 years ago, DOIs have been resolved more than 100 billion times by humans and their machines all over the world. Truly something to celebrate.
How many are being resolved?
The total DOI resolutions to date is calculated using actual number of DOI resolutions recorded up until yesterday and the average resolution rate recorded over the past 24 hours (currently this is )
Try resolving a DOI name
10.) and a suffix, separated by a forward slash (/). Prefacing the DOI with doi.org/ will turn it into an actionable link, for example, https://doi.org/10.47366/sabia.v5n1a3. Clicking that link will ‘resolve’ it, i.e. redirect to the latest information about the object it identifies, even if the object changes or moves.