Frictions:DIYDOI

DIY DOI

The mechanics of registering a new DOI with crossref membership

• Once registered with crossref, you receive a DOI prefix, 10.XXXX
• Crossref provides a web deposit form that generates the xml
• Enter the basic metadata here (title, authors, publishers, date etc)
• And the DOI, which consists of your DOI prefix followed by a suffix which you generate yourself
• "Suffixes must be unique, contain numbers and/or letters and -._;()/ are case-insensitive and ideally are short string, easily typed yet “dumb” meaning that they contain no obvious information. A best practice DOI would be 10.3390/s18020479"
• On submitting the form, you are asked for your crossref login, and an email address where the deposit results should be sent.
• A DOI string can’t be changed once registered, and DOIs cannot be deleted.
• Once the DOI is confirmed you then create a landing page for the DOI.
• For the landing page it's usually enough to add the DOI information (title, author and/ DOI URL as an html link) at the top of the page of the referenced object, however if the item is a PDF it's advised to make a separate page.
• You also receive a copy of the xml. If changes need to be made to your metadata record, you can edit and submit the XML instead of re-entering your metadata into the form.
• Other metadata that might be added include funding an license metadata
• To add, change, or remove metadata from your existing records, you generally just resubmit your complete metadata record with the changes included.
• You can add funding and license metadata to multiple DOIs at once by uploading a csv file to the web deposit form using the supplemental metadata upload on crossref site.

• Notes on adding or changing metadata. Our test DOI for FRICTIONS, https://doi.org/10.70934/0yxnhx, we file as a report. Using the web upload form, reports have limited fields, including no licence or funder information, unlike with journal articles that include those fields by default (however ORCID records of the authors can still be added). To add licence and funder information requires a separate csv file, which can then refer to one or more DOI.