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Thank you, Ed! Bill Cohen, /Publisher/ The Haworth Press, Inc. www.HaworthPress.com [log in to unmask] wrote: > Hi Bill, > > HEFCE is indeed the Higher Education Funding Council for England and as part > of the Research Assessment Exercise 2008 (http://www.rae.ac.uk/) the quality > of UK research is assessed to determine how research funding is allocated. > UK higher ed institutions submit the publications of its faculty to be > evaluated by RAE panels. DOIs will be part of the bibliographic metadata > for submissions and can be used by reviewers to link to the full text > content. Publishers have agreed to provide access to full text for members > of the RAE review panels. > > Regards, > > Ed > > On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 13:33:30 -0400, William Cohen <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > >> Ed: >> >> Can you help us understand further the role of the HEFCE in dealing with >> DOI's? >> >> We are less familiar with this organization in the United States. I >> think this is the acronym for the British >> organization, the Higher Education Funding Council for England, or the >> http://www.hefce.ac.uk/). >> >> We are glad that Haworth's DOI efforts contribute to the critical >> CrossRef leadership in this >> area. >> >> >> Bill Cohen, Publisher >> The Haworth Press, Inc. >> www.HaworthPress.com >> >> >> >> [log in to unmask] wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> This exchange of messages is very timely and prompted me to join this list. >>> It's great to hear that DOIs are useful. There are a few things to >>> > mention: > >>> 1) DOI Guidelines - a set of different guidelines for the DOI is available >>> at http://www.crossref.org/02publishers/guidelines.html - feedback on these >>> documents is welcome. Some of the documents are directed at publishers but >>> a couple deal with how DOIs should be used in citations. >>> >>> We encourage all publishers to display DOIs and include them in their XML >>> deliveries to third parties (Haworth already has very good DOI use on its >>> journals pages). We are just about to undertake to revise the current >>> general DOI Guidelines. These are focused on information for publishers but >>> it would also be useful to add a section on library issues. >>> >>> 2) RAE - CrossRef is working with HEFCE so that they can retrieve DOIs and >>> metadata directly from CrossRef. The current plan is for HEFCE to build >>> CrossRef access directly into their submission system. This will help >>> verify submissions and, if a DOI isn't supplied, double check if one exists. >>> >>> 3) CrossRef wants to improve its services for libraries - CrossRef has a >>> variety of interfaces and libraries can get free CrossRef query accounts >>> (http://www.crossref.org/03libraries/index.html - or use the open >>> interfaces) but we want to see if there are better ways for libraries to get >>> DOIs and metadata from CrossRef. >>> >>> So, any CrossRef member publishers who would be interested in helping update >>> the Guidelines please contact me. Also, if any librarians would be >>> interested in helping on the DOI Guidelines and CrossRef services for >>> libraries please get in touch with me. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Ed >>> >>>