BOOK DOIs
As we announced back in June of 2006, CrossRef has surpassed half-million figure for DOIs assigned to books and book
chapters: http://www.crossref.org/01company/pr/press060106.htm. CrossRef is now actively encouraging its members to
assign DOIs to books, at the chapter as well as the book title level. 20 CrossRef members currently assign DOIs to their
books.
Here are a few examples:
- The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, at http://www.oxforddnb.com has a DOI assigned to each of the 65,625 entries.
- This title level DOI http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-1-4020-4466-3/ is assigned by Springer, and if you follow the
link you will see DOIs in the table of contents for each of the chapters as well.
- The American Psychological Association has also assigned DOIs to several of its books at the chapter level, such as
http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/10828-007.
BOOK REFERENCE LINKING
The below listed members have also begun reference linking out of books.
Oxford University Press:
1. 0199290474 - Flexibility and Stability in the Innovating Economy
http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/economicsfinance/0199290474/toc.html
Contains 115 DOI links out of a total bibliography of 518 items
3 book links (all OSO) - 2 on page 95 (Prencipe x2), 1 on page 155 (Geroski)
2. 019928220X - Future People
http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/philosophy/019928220X/toc.html
Contains 74 DOI links out of a total bibliography of 352 items
3 book links (all OSO) - 1 on page 366 (Beckermann), 1 on page 368 (Dasgupta), 1 on page 379 (Unger)
3. 0199288917 - Swinnen
http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/economicsfinance/0199288917/toc.html
Contains 69 DOI links out of a total bibliography of 231 items
2 book links (neither OSO) - 1 on page 190 (Dudwick), 1 on page 195
The World Conservation Union:
http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.CH.2005.3.en
REGISTERING BOOK DOIS
For registering DOIs for books and reference works please refer to the Association of American Publishers (AAP) policies on
e-books (http://www.publishers.org/digital/index.cfm). The AAP recommends that the ISBN be used as the DOI suffix and that
DOIs should not be assigned to different e-book formats. CrossRef follows these recommendations.
The metadata required for book DOI registration is described in sections 6-8 of
http://www.crossref.org/schema/deposit/crossref4.1.0.xsd. Members can also use the web deposit form in the members-only
section of the website for this purpose, for both book titles and book chapters. Book type, title, publisher, and year of
publication are all required fields for deposit; ISBN or ISSN, author/editor/contributor, volume, edition, and series information
are all optional fields.
CHAPTER UPDATES AND MULTIPLE EDITIONS
If a book chapter online is updated in some fashion, this would not require a change in DOI unless the publisher expects each
chapter version to be cited differently. For instance, a new edition of a book or chapter published in a different year from the
original could be assigned a new DOI.
If the publisher wishes to provide the reader with access to or information about archival editions of chapters or books, they
can provide the appropriate information and links on the DOI response page. Alternatively, they can use CrossRef Multiple
Resolution for this purpose; please see http://www.crossref.org/mr/mr_main.html for more information.
USE OF BOOK DOIS IN CITATIONS
Best practices for citing books and chapters using the DOI are the same as those for citing journal articles. Namely, the DOI
should appear at the end of the reference and should be encoded as a hyperlink. For more information, see page 3 of
http://www.crossref.org/08downloads/CrossRef_Ref_Guide_1_0.pdf.
