Publishing Partner Guide to DOIs
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| - | CrossRef members are required to do both A and B for journal articles. For journals that offer a downloadable PDF of their articles, DOIs must be inserted in the PDF at the point of typesetting. In cases where [[Rapid Typesetting Service|MPublishing does the typesetting for a publication]], MPublishing staff will insert these DOIs into the PDFs. However, '''in cases where a publishing partner [[Creating downloadable PDFs|creates a PDF version]] of the work (for distribution in print or online by MPublishing or through other channels) | + | CrossRef members are required to do both A and B for journal articles. For journals that offer a downloadable PDF of their articles, DOIs must be inserted in the PDF at the point of typesetting. In cases where [[Rapid Typesetting Service|MPublishing does the typesetting for a publication]], MPublishing staff will insert these DOIs into the PDFs. However, '''in cases where a publishing partner [[Creating downloadable PDFs|creates a PDF version]] of the work themselves (for distribution in print or online by MPublishing or through other channels)''', we require that the publishing partner insert these DOIs before delivering the PDFs to MPublishing. This applies to ''all files for content published since May 2011'' (when MPublishing joined CrossRef), in cases where the publishing partner has agreed to allow MPublishing to create DOIs for works distributed online by MPublishing. How to insert these DOIs in your PDFs will very depending on our publication, as described below. |
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Revision as of 13:33, 1 October 2012
MPublishing is a member of CrossRef, which allows us to create Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for our publications. A DOI is a stable identifier assigned to a work that redirects viewers to the URL of the definitive version of that work online. Members of CrossRef register a DOI for each work that they publish. In addition, members are required to link to each other's works using DOIs. That is, if an article published by a CrossRef member makes reference to any work that also has a DOI, that DOI must be included in the article's bibliographic references. This can make citation trails easier to follow. So, MPublishing potentially engages with DOIs in two ways:
- A: MPublishing creates a new DOI for each article published online
- B: MPublishing checks to see whether a DOI exists for each bibliographic reference in an article and inserts DOIs where they exist (if they have not yet been supplied by the author or editor).
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Journals
CrossRef members are required to do both A and B for journal articles. For journals that offer a downloadable PDF of their articles, DOIs must be inserted in the PDF at the point of typesetting. In cases where MPublishing does the typesetting for a publication, MPublishing staff will insert these DOIs into the PDFs. However, in cases where a publishing partner creates a PDF version of the work themselves (for distribution in print or online by MPublishing or through other channels), we require that the publishing partner insert these DOIs before delivering the PDFs to MPublishing. This applies to all files for content published since May 2011 (when MPublishing joined CrossRef), in cases where the publishing partner has agreed to allow MPublishing to create DOIs for works distributed online by MPublishing. How to insert these DOIs in your PDFs will very depending on our publication, as described below.
If the journal is made available online as soon as possible
We recommend that the person creating the PDF insert the article's DOI (Type A) into the article, either on the first page or in a running header or footer. Type A DOIs have the form:
http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/<collid>.<idno>
where <collid> is whatever appears after c= in URLs for your publication and <idno> is whatever appears after idno= when viewing a particular article. Your contact at MPublishing can help you determine what the value of <idno> will be for a future issue or volume of your publication.
In addition, we recommend that the typeset version include the Type B DOIs directly in the text (preferably as clickable links in the PDF version published online). This ensures that the print version includes all of the information included in the web version of the article. In order to insert the DOIs, the publishing partner should check each bibliograhic reference against the CrossRef database using the Simple Text Query form provided by CrossRef or the Guest Query form.
If the journal is made available only after an "embargo period" (a delay for the free online version)
We recommend against inserting a DOI for the article (Type A) since that DOI will not function during the embargo period.
In addition, we recommend that the typeset version include the Type B DOIs directly in the text (preferably as clickable links in the PDF version published online). This ensures that the print version includes all of the information included in the web version of the article. In order to insert the DOIs, the publishing partner should check each bibliograhic reference against the CrossRef database using the Simple Text Query form provided by CrossRef or the Guest Query form.
Monographs and other non-journal content
For monographs and other non-journal content, CrossRef currently allows members to do A, as described above. Although MPublishing will register a DOI for your monograph, there is no convention for inserting DOIs into PDF versions of monographs, so we do not do this in typesetting and do not recommend that you do it if you do your own typesetting.
CrossRef does not require B (as described above) for monographs, so you are not required to insert DOIs in bibliographic references. However, we encourage you to check each bibliograhic reference against the CrossRef database using the Simple Text Query form provided by CrossRef or the Guest Query form and insert them when applicable. Doing so makes it easier for readers to find source online.
