Important:
1. *DO NOT schedule your publication-ready articles to receive new DOIs via CrossRef until you have completed all of the editorial workflows and your articles are ready for publication*.
2. DOIs can only be assigned to articles and any associated supplemental files, NOT journal issues
In order to automatically mint DOIs for publication-ready articles published in your OJS journal complete the following steps:
Journal Manager:
- Once you have completed all peer-review and editorial workflows in the Submission workflow, schedule the articles for publication by ensuring the issue is 'published' in OJS: Navigate to Issues -> Future Issues -> Edit Issues -> Publish Issue
- Note: To transfer the article metadata to Crossref, in order to return the DOI, you must publish the issue in OJS.
- Next, contact Scholarly Publishing services in the Library to notify them that a new issue is ready for publication at least 24 hours before the issue launch date. Staff will then submit the article(s) metadata to Crossref and notify the journal manager.
- If your journal operates under a continuous publication model you will need to submit the article metadata to Crossref each time a new article is published: Tools -> Import/Export -> CrossRef XML Export Plugin -> select the 'Articles' tab -> select each article and 'submit (ensure 'Validate XML before the export and registration' remains checked).
- Once you have received confirmation from Scholarly Publishing services that your article metadata has been successfully sent to Crossref add the DOI to the production-ready formatted article PDF file (and upload it to the journal issue: Issues -> Back Issues -> select the issue -> navigate to each article in the Table of Contents ->) in either of the following formats:
- As a ShortDOI: e.g. http://doi.org/cg56 using the ShortDOI Service. To generate a ShortDOI, enter the long-form DOI into the ShortDOI Service in this form: 10.24908/eoe-ese-rse.v18i0.6841 and select Submit. Your short DOI will be returned
- As a full DOI URL: https://doi.org/10.24908/eoe-ese-rse.v18i0.6841 NOT: http://doi.dx.org/10.24908/eoe-ese-rse.v18i0.6841
- Notify Scholarly Publishing services about any changes to the metadata for articles published in your OJS journal, which have already been assigned a DOI, so that the item records in the Crossref metadata registry can be updated.