[Dspace-general] Do I have to pay for all handles used in DSpace?

[MacKenzie Smith]

Hi Andrew,

I'm a bit confusing by your question...

Are you wanting to put a DOI in the article's item record, in addition 
to the default DSpace Handle? For example, a DOI assigned by the 
publisher? In which case the Handle would resolve to DSpace but the DOI 
would resolve to the publisher's copy. This is very straightforward to 
do... lots of sites have implemented it (you can, for example, get the 
DOS via a CrossRef search of the article metadata).

Or are you wanting to use DOIs instead of Handles for your DSpace? Which 
is possible to do, but you'll have to join CrossRef or another DOI 
registration agency first. There are some institutions doing that (e.g. 
the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) if you want more information 
about how to change DSpace to use DOIs by default for article items. And 
in this scenario, since DOIs are just another flavor of Handles there 
are no additional technical changes needed.

MacKenzie

Andrew Marlow wrote:
> I am thinking about the handles used in DSpace and the relationship 
> between them and DOIs. I see that handles get used for all landing 
> pages, not just articles but journal homepage as well. This is nice 
> and consistent but I wonder what it means for a repository that uses 
> DOIs as handles. So far I have not used a public handle server but 
> just used internal handles. I would like to hear from DSpace users 
> that have used external handles. How do they relate to DOIs?
>
> I would like to load my DSpace with articles that have amonst their 
> metadata a DOI. Effectively this is the handle, though it is not a 
> CNRI handle. Is it possible to make the input DOI the handle? What 
> implication does this have for journal homepages that do not have 
> DOIs? In that case my DSpace would have to use a CNRI handle I 
> suppose......
> -- 
> Regards,
>
> Andrew M.
> http://www.andrewpetermarlow.co.uk