Dear Frances,
We have started assigning DOIs to our theses here at Lancaster as well. We have a custom DOI minter developed which allow us to mint or reserve more readable DOIs.
As an example, see this:
https://doi.org/10.17635/lancaster/thesis/36
PS: I am fully aware of the debate of whether DOIs should be readable but this is the decision we have made at Lancaster.
Thanks,
Masud
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Masud Khokhar
Assistant Director: Digital Innovation and Research Services
The Library, Lancaster University
Lancaster, LA1 4YH, United Kingdom
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Date: Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 12:03
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Subject: Re: DOIs but not for data
Dear Frances,
I contacted Rachael Kotarski at the British Library last year to ask if we could assign DOIs to non-data items and was told it was fine.
We took the initiative to assign DOIs to 500+ student theses held in the publication repository last year (http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/view/theses/archive.html),
and have subsequently received a steady number of requests to publish project reports in the repository for the purpose of obtaining a DOI. This week I received an email from one project looking for advice on how they could use the Altmetric API to display
stats on their project website. In our data repository (http://datacompass.lshtm.ac.uk/), we also assign DOIs for surveys, interview guides, processing scripts, and software, and other reusable outputs.
We use a custom version of the EPrints DOI plugin for the task. We have PRIMO as well, but never considered using it for DOI resolution.
Regards,
Gareth
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Gareth Knight
Research Data Manager,
Library & Archives Service
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT
(+44) 020 7927 2564
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Subject: DOIs but not for data
Dear all
Over the last few months, we have received a number of queries from researchers wishing to assign DOIs to reports, grey literature and critical editions.
We could theoretically do this using our DataCite agreement and we have had confirmation from DataCite about it but, we haven’t yet due to considerations about where the landing page would be. We currently use Primo as a landing page for
research data records (an interim solution) but we would probably use Pure for any sort of publication.
We were wondering what the general consensus was on creating DOIs for otherwise unpublished research outputs? If anyone does do this, where do the DOIs resolve to?
Happy to summarise to the list if anyone else is interested in this.
Best wishes
Frances
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