A researcher here at my institution is asking about getting a doi for his publication to increase its findability and exposure. Does one have to go through the avenue of a Registration Agency? If so, what are your recommendations?
Kathleen - doi's are usually 'routinely' applied to publications via the publisher of your article. You can go through agencies i.e. Crossref (perhaps the most common) - but you could incur a cost. Best to check first that the publisher has not already assigned a doi (this usually occurs as soon as the article is 'in press') - or request if it is not part of their routine service. The link here is to the doi organisation site FAQ.
https://www.doi.org/faq.html
Most serious journals nowadays are registered with the DOI agencies and asign a DOI number to the articles they publish automatically. So, I think that if your article does not have a DOI, it may depend on the policy of the journal or may be the journal is still new and is not yet registered.
I totally agree with Difo Voukang Harouna
DOI is automatically release once your article published.
If your journal publication does not have a DOI of its own, ResearchGate can assign one.
The "article" in question is a document found here - a research guide: https://worship.calvin.edu/resources/resource-library/the-geography-of-worship/ It was not published in a journal. It was written by two geography professors at my institution. So, no publisher, per se.
We've briefly looked at Crossref. That may be promising. It's really a bigger question about increasing the visibility and influence of works such as this one that are not published in a journal, (maybe not every likely to be), but that make an important contribution to the field.
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