The Identifier

Resources

Here you’ll find shareable materials about the foundation, its community, and the identifier. Feel free to download, use, and distribute these resources. They include fact sheets on technical details, a collection of policies and statements, and brief introductions to the DOI Foundation for your communities and workplaces. All content on this site is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.

Let us know if there are any other resources you would like us to add here.


Factsheets
Over time, we have created fact sheets to assist with:

  • Essential Information on the Digital Object Identifier System

  • Developing DOI Applications

  • Interoperability of Identifiers

  • The indecs Framework

  • DOI System’s Integration with Cloudflare

  • DOI System and Standard Identifier Protocols

  • DOI System and the Handle System

  • Documentation on DOI Resolution

  • DOI System and the ISBN Framework

  • DOI System and Persistent URLs (PURLs)

  • DOI System and OpenURL

  • Topics Related to the DOI Foundation

FAQs

Common questions and answers about the DOI® System.

News Archive
A collection of previous announcements and updates.

DOI in the News
A repository of publicly available content related to the DOI and Persistent Identifiers (PIDs).

DOI URI Scheme
This document defines the “doi” URI scheme. It was developed and published by the DOI Foundation and reviewed by its members, including the Registration Agencies.

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