UPLOAD Helpdesk (repository.upou.edu.ph)

Current policy

UPLOAD subscribes to the Handle.net system. See https://upou-repository.freshdesk.com/a/tickets/139 for details on how subscription should be renewed. 

Background

• From the APA website: "A digital object identifier (DOI) is a unique alphanumeric string assigned by a registration agency (the International DOI Foundation) to identify content and provide a persistent link to its location on the internet. The publisher assigns a DOI when your article is published and made available electronically."
  
• For example, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1458125 is the URL of a publication, but only a portion (10.5281/zenodo.1458125) is the DOI. 
• Articles accepted in many popular online journals or conference proceedings are often (though not always) assigned a DOI.

Each Repository item should have its own unique resource identifier (URI). Ideally, that URI should be a DOI because of its use in research and research impact tracking. However, the UP System (as of this writing) does not subscribe to a DOI issuance service, and costs for issuing DOIs appear to be significant (more significant than the Handle system; see next paragraph). 

Handle and DOI policy

A cost efficient option (costing only 50 USD a year) is to sign up to the Handle system, which is natively supported by DSpace. We can unique identifier similar to a DOI, called a Handle identifier. (In fact, the DOI system runs on the Handle system.) 

However, since DOIs are very useful, what we propose to make into policy is the following:

• Repository deposits should always include a preexisting DOI. Whenever possible, a preexisting DOI issued by the publisher of the work should be used.   
• If a work has no preexisting DOI, depositors will be asked to first create a DOI for their work. 
  • The recommended way of creating a DOI will be through Zenodo. Zenodo is a spinoff of the EU-funded OpenAIRE project and will probably last for as long as the EU lasts. Zenodo has excellent, rich metadata support. It also issues DOIs for free. The Zenodo UPOU Community is just a secondary/adjunct community; the UPOU Repository is ultimately more important because it alone is indexed by Google Scholar. (Zenodo is not.)
• The Repository Manager will maintain a UPOU Community in the Zenodo repository: https://zenodo.org/communities/upou (pictured below).
  
• The Repository Manager will curate gets uploaded to the Zenodo UPOU community. 

Implementation of policy

This policy has been implemented through the following guides available to the UPOU Community:

• Using DOIs with the UPOU Institutional Repository 
• How do I get a DOI for my work?

Endorsement history

Endorsement history for the policy, implementation guideline, or workflow described in this page.