A Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is used to give an electronic document a unique designation.

Example of a DOI name: 10.3929/ethz-a-000565688

The DOI name enables the citability of research results and materials published online. It is a permanent identifier which takes the user to the current version of the relevant web page and thus represents an advantage over citing by means of a frequently temporary URL address.

Type or copy a DOI name in the text field below and the corresponding document is opened in your web browser.

 
Alternatively, you can find a DOI-object directly in your web browser by prefixing the DOI name with the text string https://doi.org/
Example: https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-a-000565688 (external link)

The DOI registration service is offered to organizational units (not individuals) from the field of higher education and research in Switzerland. Digital objects can be primary data (research data) or secondary data (e.g. dissertations, working papers, articles, digitized resources).

Prior to registration, an agreement is entered with ETH Zurich's DOI Desk, under which the results of the preliminary technical and organisational clarifications are documented.

Slideshare presentation: A step-by-step guide to DOI Registration (external link)

For academic institutions and non-profit-making companies:

• Initialisation fee: CHF 200, one-off payment when the contract is concluded
• Basic fee: CHF 200, due once a year from initial registration, registration of up to 50 DOIs per year included
• DOI top-up: CHF 800, due annually on top of the basic fee if more than 50 DOIs are registered, registration of an unlimited number of DOIs included

For organisational units of ETH Zurich: DOI registration is free of charge for you.

To obtain a single DOI, we recommend authors from ETH Zurich to publish their document or dataset via the Research Collection (external link). You can also obtain the DOI before the actual publication (Reserving a DOI (external link)).

We recommend that authors from other institutions publish their paper or research data via the repository Zenodo.

The DOI-Desk Newsletter keeps subscribers up to date with the latest developments regarding DOI registration, DataCite and the International DOI Foundation. It is published in English once or twice a year.

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DataCite is an official DOI Registration Agency and a member of the International DOI Foundation (external link) (IDF). Its vision is to improve access to research data on the internet and to promote its visibility.