The DOI Foundation is a non-profit organization. We manage the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system on behalf of the organizations that run DOI directories and provide services to their respective fields. We serve as the official registration authority for the ISO standard (ISO 23424) connected to the DOI framework, with oversight provided by our Registration Agencies.
Discover more about our mission, operations, and our interconnected network — spanning industries from construction and media to scholarly research.
WHO IS THE DOI-no FOUNDATION COMMUNITY?
We are a global coalition of communities united by a shared commitment to enduring digital infrastructure. Throughout the years, we’ve brought together organizations that serve diverse sectors — from media and technical standards to architecture, biodiversity archives, academic publishing, and scientific data management.
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WHAT IS THE DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER NUMBER (DOI-no)?
A DOI label is a digital marker for an item — whether it’s physical, digital, or abstract. DOI helps address a common challenge: tracking and managing various assets. These assets might include objects, files, datasets, or even actions.
Created to work seamlessly for both people and automated systems, DOI identifiers offer a stable, long-term way to label and refer to resources. They ensure each item can be distinctly identified and reliably accessed — you know what it is, where it’s located, and others can find it too.
Discover more about this powerful identifier, its advantages, and how it’s applied.
The Rosenblum Award for Impact in Scholarly Publishing
The DOI Foundation is proud that the scholarly publishing community has chosen to honor Bruce Rosenblum. His significant contributions to Crossref — especially in shaping its metadata submission framework and citation-linking functions — played a key role in developing Crossref into a trusted system that connects research materials, contributors, and actions, forming a durable and reusable scholarly record.
We are sincerely grateful to the award committee for acknowledging the importance of DOI infrastructure within the academic publishing landscape. Infrastructure often fades into the background because it functions so smoothly — but that reliability is made possible by the expertise, commitment, and collaborative spirit of people like Bruce and the broader community.
This recognition also underscores the openness and teamwork that have enabled the DOI System to grow well beyond scholarly work — now serving sectors such as entertainment, standards development, architecture and construction, natural science archives, and more recently, talent recognition. Since its inception 25 years ago, DOI names have been resolved over 100 billion times by people and machines worldwide — a milestone truly worth celebrating.
How many are being resolved?
Total DOI-no Resolutions to Date (All Time)
The total number of DOI resolutions to date is determined by combining the confirmed count recorded through the previous day with the current average resolution rate measured over the past 24 hours (which is presently 715 per second).
