Assignment of DOI

DOI (Digital Object Identifier) is an international standard (ISO 26324:2012) of the identification of information, which is appropriated to scientific publications, such as: scientific articles, collections of scientific articles, summaries of conferences, reports of conferences, reviews of scientific articles, theses, applications for grants, patents, reports on scientific work, textbooks, scientific aids, monographs.  For scientific content DOI is assigned by the registration agency Crossref or with a sponsor organization. More information about DOI in the article (link).

The publishing house "Internauka" is the official partner (Sponsoring Member) of Crossref in Europe with the status of Sponsoring Member (statement form register Sponsoring member) and is authorized by administrative, financial, billing, technical issues to represent publishers in Publishers International Linking Association, Inc. (PILA)

    Existence of the DOI identifier demonstrates high technological quality of the edition. It is recommended to assign DOI to all scientific publications. The relevance of the DOI assignment is especially important for journals included or planning to apply for inclusion in the VAK list (for Ukrainian scientific journals, the assignment of DOI to each article is mandatory, according to point 6 of the Procedure for Forming the List of Scientific Professional Publications of Ukraine (Order MES No. 32 of 15.01.2018). Also, the DOI is obligatory for the editions entering into the leading scientometric bases (Scopus, Web of Science).

The publishing house "Internauka" provides services for assigning an individual prefix DOI, which will be permanently assigned to the publishing house (publication, organization, university), entering the Crossref register and connecting to the crossref bibliographic reference system, as well as information support during the work in the Crossref system. 

The publishing house "Internauka" is one of the largest sponsoring organizations of Crossref and cooperates with more than 200 leading universities, scientific organizations and publications in Europe, such as:

Cooperation procedure:

To start cooperation, it is necessary to issue the contract between the applicant organization and the Internaca Publishing House, which describing terms of cooperation and payment. The publishing house "Internauka" offers for publishers (editions, universities, scientific organizations)  three ways of cooperation on assignment of digital identifiers DOI.

	Option 1	Option 2	Option 3	Crossref
Annual contribution	250$	130$	not charged	275$
Pay for DOI	1$	2$	5$	1$
Individual prefix
Free DOI for testing
Prefix assignment period	7-10 days	7-10 days	7-10 days	30-45 days
Contract with the resident
Payment in national currency
Information support

Requirements to materials to which DOI is appropriated:

• The registered data have to possess the URL page.
• The URL page has to be available on a long-term basis.
• The URL page has to be refreshed in case of her change.

To conclude a contract and start cooperation, it is necessary to send a request to e-mail: doi@inter-nauka.com c marked "Assignment of DOI", as well as contact information.