Das GESIS Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften und das ZBW LeibnizInformationszentrum für Wirtschaftswissenschaften betreiben in Kooperation mit DataCite, der internationalen Initiative zur Verbesserung des Zugangs zu Forschungsdaten, einen DOI-Registrierungsservice für Sozial- und...

Since 2005, the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) has offered a successful Digital Object Identifier (DOI) registration service for persistent identification of research data. In 2009, TIB, the British Library, the Library of the ETH Zurich, the French Institute for...

This essay sketches technical and non-technical issues around persistent identifiers (henceforth PIs) in a manner which makes no attempt to be complete. Our goal is to rescue the core notions from the obscurity which detail and completeness burdens them with. A reader willing to entertain the...