My institution's library will provide a stable URL for data archiving, but not a DOI. Is a stable URL fine or do I need a DOI?
Hi Ryan,
I would sugeest getting DOI for the following reasons:
A DOI is a unique alphanumeric string that provides a persistent link
to content online. We should include a DOI for every reference.
(DOIs are actually quite prevalent—publishers who use them assign one
to all their online content, even if it was published pre-Internet.)
- CrossRef.org makes DOIs easy to find. The free DOI lookup finds DOIs
one at a time. Or if you cut and paste your reference list into the
Simple Text Query form, CrossRef will find all the available DOIs at
once.
- If you publish an article using ICPSR ( Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ) data and you include the DOI in the data citation as one of your references, you make it easy for other researchers to get back to the original data.
However, for online material without DOIs, include URLs or database
names/URLs.
Hope this helps
Hey Ryan,
Not much left to add to Mo's feedback other than stick to DOI's where practical.
When not practical, publish your data on zenodo.org (free DOIs) if you have no decent data rep in your disciplines.
re3data.org might point you to a decent data rep, if you need one, and most do issue DOIs, and if they dont, zenodo your data ;)
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