Improving the use of the DOI

Digital object identifier: The DOI

“…In the increasingly fast‐paced world of nursing research and publication, quickly and effectively locating sources through references is a boon. Nursing scholars have noted the value of DOI usage for increased discoverability, management, and interlinking scholarly communications and sources 4–6 . In addition to following DOI links, reference management software programs, such as Zotero, have integrated retrieval features that automatically search and retrieve one or a list of articles based on the DOI (see Figure 1).…”

“…Several registering agencies facilitate DOI infrastructure and services—frequently dependent on the material type of the digital object or by geographic region 6,7 . Though the majority of material types may be textual, datasets, physical objects, and non‐article born‐digital materials (e.g., Git code) may also have DOIs assigned to them.…”

“…The format of DOIs has changed somewhat over time 6 . The DOI System uses a consistent format, much like the barcoding system.…”

“…Nursing scholars have noted the value of DOI usage for increased discoverability, management, and interlinking scholarly communications and sources. [4][5][6] In addition to following DOI links, reference management software programs, such as Zotero, have integrated retrieval features that automatically search and retrieve one or a list of articles based on the DOI (see Figure 1). By copy-pasting a DOI from a reference, the search engine can automatically retrieve the associated content.…”

“…Several registering agencies facilitate DOI infrastructure and services-frequently dependent on the material type of the digital object or by geographic region. 6,7 Though the majority of material types may be textual, datasets, physical objects, and non-article born-digital materials (e.g., Git code) may also have DOIs assigned to them. The IDF manages the DOI ® System and is a nonprofit membership organization that governs the federation of registration agencies providing DOI services and registration.…”