> > There is a short article on DOIs in the current issue of Library > Technology (November 1997) by my colleague Andy Powell. > > Identifiers for digital objects > Collecting numbers > > There is a fuller discussion of identifiers (inc DOIs and URNs) in a > report prepared as part > of the EU project BIBLINK, which looks at the transfer of metadata between > publishers of digital objects and national bibliographic agencies. There > is a link to this from the Biblink page: > > http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/biblink/ > Another useful paper on DOIs is Mark Bide's BIC/BNBRF study: "In Search of the Unicorn: the DOI from a user perspective". http://www.bic.org.uk/bic/bicinfo.html/ Ann -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mrs. Ann Apps. SuperJournal Project, Manchester Computing, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6039 Fax: +44 (0) 161 275 6040 Email: [log in to unmask] WWW: http://www.superjournal.ac.uk/sj/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%