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The first question is: what are they trying to accomplish by having DOIs? Do they have a long-term plan for persistence of their content? Financial plan? If they're looking for persistent identifiers, I don't understand (a priori), why DOI is better, as an identifier scheme, than any other 'persistent identifier scheme' (ARK [1], PURL, Handle, etc[2]). (Though I really like CrossRef and the things they're doing.) [1] http://www.cdlib.org/inside/diglib/ark/ [2] http://www.persistent-identifier.de/english/204-examples.php -Jodi On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Bucknell, Terry < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > You should be able to find all the information you need about CrossRef fees > and rules at: > > http://www.crossref.org/02publishers/20pub_fees.html > > and > > http://www.crossref.org/02publishers/59pub_rules.html > > Information about the system of registering and maintaining DOIs is at: > > http://www.crossref.org/help/ > > Note that as well as registering DOIs for the articles in LLT, LLT would be > obliged to link to the articles cited by LLT articles (for cited articles > that have DOIs too). Looking at the LLT site, it looks like they would have > to change their 'abstract' pages to 'abstract plus cited refs', or change > the way that their PDFs are created so that they include DOI links for cited > references. (Without this the whole system would fail: publishers would > expect traffic to come to them, but wouldn't have to send traffic > elsewhere). > > I'd agree that DOIs are in general a Good Thing (and for e-books / e-book > chapters, and reference work entries as well as e-journal articles). The > CrossRef fees are deliberately set so as not to exclude single-title > publishers. Here's an example of a single-title, university-based e-journal > in the UK that provides DOIs, so it must be a CrossRef member: > http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/. > > > Terry Bucknell > Electronic Resources Manager > University of Liverpool > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > Jonathan Rochkind > Sent: 17 November 2009 23:20 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Assigning DOI for local content > > So I have no actual experience with this. > > But you have to pay for DOI's. I've never done it, but I don't think > you neccesarily have to run your own purl server -- CrossRef takes care > of it. Of course, if your documents are going to be moving all over the > place, if you run your own purl server and register your purls with > CrossRef, then when a document moves, you can update your local purl > server; otherwise, you can update CrossRef, heh. > > It certainly is useful to have DOIs, I agree. I would suggest they > should just contact cross-ref and get information on the cost, and what > their responsibilities are, and then they'll be able to decide. If the > 'structure of their content' is journal articles, then, sure DOI is > pretty handy for people wanting to cite or link to those articles. > > Jonathan > > Ranti Junus wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I was asked by somebody from a college @ my institution whether they > > should go with assigning DOI for their journal articles: > > http://llt.msu.edu/ > > > > I can see the advantage of this approach and my first thought is more > > about whether they have resources in running their purl server, or > > whether they would need to do it through crossref (or any other > > agency.) Has anybody had any experience about this? > > > > Moreover, are there other factors that one should consider (pros and > > cons) about this? Or, looking at the structure of their content, > > whether they ever need DOI? Any ideas and/or suggestions? > > > > > > Any insights about this is much appreciated. > > > > > > thanks, > > ranti. > > > > >