Digital Object Identifiers: Stability for citations and referencing, but not proxies for quality

Horton, Laurence (2015) Digital Object Identifiers: Stability for citations and referencing, but not proxies for quality. Impact of Social Sciences Blog (23 Apr 2015). Website.

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What exactly is a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and how does it help in the management and long-term preservation of research? Laurence Horton explains the basic structure and purpose of a DOI and also points to some limitations. DOIs are not the only way of providing fixed, persisting references to objects, but they have emerged as the leading system.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences
Additional Information:	© 2015 The Author(s) CC BY 3.0
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > ZA Information resources > ZA4050 Electronic information resources Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > ZA Information resources > ZA4450 Databases
Date Deposited:	24 Mar 2017 11:18
Last Modified:	13 Sep 2024 23:56
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/70603

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