What is a DOI?
A ‘Digital Object Identifier’ is an automatically generated unique identifier for intellectual property in the digital environment (‘10.1093/molbev/msg085’ is an example of a DOI). The DOI is attached to the item once it is accepted for publication and remains the same even if different versions of recognisably the same item appear successively. It appears on every version of the manuscript, including the final versions in print and online, and reprints. DOIs facilitate online searches for particular papers.
DOI stands for Digital Object Identifier. DOIs are used to uniquely identify files or other resources on the internet. Address details need only be maintained in one place in order to guarantee that links to a file or resource, wherever the links are, will never be out of date, so bringing to an end the all too familiar “file not found” message.
DOI stands for Digital Object Identifier. For the purposes of this article, DOIs are a series of numbers or letters, provided by some databases, with which durable links can be built. You can read more about DOIs if you need additional, technical information. Check this page for instructions on making DOIs work with WSU databases.
