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.