The ETH Zurich DOI Desk: DOIs as standard persistent identifier and best practice in Swiss Open Access repositories

Presentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

General Track Papers and Panels

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Over the last couple of years it has become best practice in Swiss Open Access repositories to assign Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) as persistent identifiers to digital objects such as dissertations and theses, preprints and postprints, research data or digitized library material. The ETH Zurich DOI Desk, the main DOI registration service for the Swiss university and research sector, has registered – in cooperation with its clients - over 700.000 DOIs since 2009 and serves 19 customers running 26 different services (such as repositories) all over Switzerland. How did it come about that the DOI registration service has been set up with such success? Why has the DOI become a de facto standard in Swiss Open Access repositories while in other countries there is much more diversity in the persistent identifiers in use? The presentation will give an overview on the services of the ETH Zurich DOI Desk for Swiss repositories that have been established in cooperation with the DOI registration agency DataCite.