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Can someone tell me where to get a definitive list of DOI prefixes? I tried to find this some time ago and came away very frustrated. The system seems in realit

Can someone tell me where to get a definitive list of DOI prefixes? I tried to find this some time ago and came away very frustrated. The system seems in reality very opaque.

cordmata 5y ago
haha, yeah, keep peeling the onion https://handle.net/ https://handle.net/
- natch 5y ago
  Don’t know why you are downvoted, this site has always popped up as one of the big stakeholders in the weird DOI schemes.
  - afandian 5y ago
    This is the equivalent to tracing a domain registrar up to ICANN.
    - natch 5y ago
      Yes, which is a significant connection to make when understanding the big picture here.
murphyslab 5y ago
Worth reading the Wikipedia article on the Handle System, of which the DOI system is a subset: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handle_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handle_System All handles that start with 10 are DOIs. Handles that start with 20 are issued by CNRI. I don't know of a published list of prefixes, but it would be easy to investigate since entering the prefix into the appropriate resolver will bring up information on the issuing authority: - https://hdl.handle.net/20.1000 https://hdl.handle.net/20.1000 : "Prefix for CNRI licenses." - https://doi.org/10.14288 https://doi.org/10.14288 : "Datacite prefix 8/22/13" Not all have the DESC field, but you can figure out who these are from other fields: - https://doi.org/10.14288 https://doi.org/10.14288 : CrossRef & American Chem. Soc. publications - https://doi.org/10.1038 https://doi.org/10.1038 : CrossRef & Nature publications etc...
- aorth 5y ago
  > All handles that start with 10 are DOIs. Handles that start with 20 are issued by CNRI. Interesting! I manage a system that is responsible for two Handle prefixes: 10568 and 10947. Guess we got those from CNRI around 2009 and it was different then.
gwbilder 5y ago
DOI prefixes are designed to be opaque. All they do is serve as a namespace that helps guarantee that somebody can generate a unique DOI (yes, I know, other approaches to this would arguably be better). In short- the prefix doesn't really tell you anything useful about the DOI. So what are you trying to do? And have you looked at the Crossref and/or DataCite APIs? https://api.crossref.org https://api.crossref.org https://api.datacite.org https://api.datacite.org
- uptime 5y ago
  Shout out to all the Crossref/Datacite people in this discussion. I use your services in polite mode for discovery and don’t know what I’d do without them. If any ORCID people are in the house you get some appreciation too. I struggle to link articles to datasets but if the solution is out there it is probably based on your work.
- pogue 5y ago
  What are these for exactly? I'm looking for a paper that doesn't have a DOI attached. Would there anyway to use these tools in a Windows environment to search for the DOI?

Can someone tell me where to get a definitive list of DOI prefixes? I tried to find this some time ago and came away very frustrated. The system seems in reality very opaque.

cordmata 5y ago

haha, yeah, keep peeling the onion https://handle.net/ https://handle.net/

natch 5y ago
Don’t know why you are downvoted, this site has always popped up as one of the big stakeholders in the weird DOI schemes.
- afandian 5y ago
  This is the equivalent to tracing a domain registrar up to ICANN.
  - natch 5y ago
    Yes, which is a significant connection to make when understanding the big picture here.

murphyslab 5y ago

Worth reading the Wikipedia article on the Handle System, of which the DOI system is a subset: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handle_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handle_System All handles that start with 10 are DOIs. Handles that start with 20 are issued by CNRI. I don't know of a published list of prefixes, but it would be easy to investigate since entering the prefix into the appropriate resolver will bring up information on the issuing authority: - https://hdl.handle.net/20.1000 https://hdl.handle.net/20.1000 : "Prefix for CNRI licenses." - https://doi.org/10.14288 https://doi.org/10.14288 : "Datacite prefix 8/22/13" Not all have the DESC field, but you can figure out who these are from other fields: - https://doi.org/10.14288 https://doi.org/10.14288 : CrossRef & American Chem. Soc. publications - https://doi.org/10.1038 https://doi.org/10.1038 : CrossRef & Nature publications etc...

aorth 5y ago
> All handles that start with 10 are DOIs. Handles that start with 20 are issued by CNRI. Interesting! I manage a system that is responsible for two Handle prefixes: 10568 and 10947. Guess we got those from CNRI around 2009 and it was different then.

gwbilder 5y ago

DOI prefixes are designed to be opaque. All they do is serve as a namespace that helps guarantee that somebody can generate a unique DOI (yes, I know, other approaches to this would arguably be better). In short- the prefix doesn't really tell you anything useful about the DOI. So what are you trying to do? And have you looked at the Crossref and/or DataCite APIs? https://api.crossref.org https://api.crossref.org https://api.datacite.org https://api.datacite.org

uptime 5y ago
Shout out to all the Crossref/Datacite people in this discussion. I use your services in polite mode for discovery and don’t know what I’d do without them. If any ORCID people are in the house you get some appreciation too. I struggle to link articles to datasets but if the solution is out there it is probably based on your work.
pogue 5y ago
What are these for exactly? I'm looking for a paper that doesn't have a DOI attached. Would there anyway to use these tools in a Windows environment to search for the DOI?