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Digital Object Identifier (DOI) – an Important Element in Scientific Communication
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) – an Important Element in Scientific Communication

Author(s): Еlena Pavlovska
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Library and Information Science, Archiving, Classification, Information Architecture, Library operations and management, Electronic information storage and retrieval, Education and training, Other
Published by: Институт по математика и информатика - Българска академия на науките
Keywords: Digital Object Identifier (DOI); Scientific Communication; CrossRef; Scientific Journal; Article; ResearcherID; ORCID

Summary/Abstract: Digital object identifier (DOI), which appeared in the late 1990s, allows users to immediately find on the Internet the digital object they are interested in – an article, book, journal, dissertation, etc. Nowadays the DOI technology is widely used by foreign publishers. The availability of DOI in scientific documents, as well as the inclusion of DOI in bibliographic references in the literature, has already become a mandatory requirement for journals indexed in the Web of Science and Scopus databases. Unfortunately, DOI is included only by some journals published in Bulgaria. The article presents some new opportunities which DOI opens not only to scientific journals, but also to authors.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: VII
  • Page Range: 79-85
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English