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...

In a bid to disambiguate authors’ names, ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) was created in 2012 as a bold initiative, and has been increasingly used by academic publishers to identify authors. On this platform, author’s have the freedom to maintain the accuracy of their academic...

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

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...

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...

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...