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use of doi numbers for online documents

Online documents like

  • publications ("grey literature")
  • supplementary information to publications
  • research data

which you keep on HZB servers for permanent access by you and others can be given a permanent home at a unique address by their association with a doi number.

A doi number for an online document is defined once and for all and stays with the document in the case that such document moves to another server, i.e. get another url address. Any change of address is announced to the registration authority for doi numbers. A user who searches or adresses a document by its unique doi number is not affected by any physical move of the digital data.

In support of the use of doi numbers the library is registered as a data center and has aquired doi numbers for use by anyone at HZB. Online documents like HZB reports which are issued with help by the library are attributed doi numbers. If you have online documents in one of the catagories mentioned above you can also get doi numbers from the pool of numbers managed by the library.

For getting a doi number, please, give us any necessary information (metadata) like title, author(s), year of generation, url address and optionally more details. We register your document with DataCite, a registration authority for online documents, and notify you about the doi number of your document.