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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 >>