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== Why use DOI? And how is Oroboros involved? ==
== Why use DOI? How is Oroboros involved? ==


:::: '''Digital Object Identifier''' (DOI) is a persistent identifier used to uniquely identify online publications in order to ensure they remain traceable, searchable and citable over the long term. Compared to other types of persistent identifiers, the DOI system is widespread and well established in the life sciences arena, and it provides widely accepted visible proof that a publication is citable.
:::: '''Digital Object Identifier''' (DOI) is a persistent identifier used to uniquely identify online publications in order to ensure they remain traceable, searchable and citable over the long term. Compared to other types of persistent identifiers, the DOI system is widespread and well established in the life sciences arena, and it provides widely accepted visible proof that a publication is citable.

Revision as of 18:58, 25 January 2019

Why use DOI? How is Oroboros involved?

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a persistent identifier used to uniquely identify online publications in order to ensure they remain traceable, searchable and citable over the long term. Compared to other types of persistent identifiers, the DOI system is widespread and well established in the life sciences arena, and it provides widely accepted visible proof that a publication is citable.
In January 2019 an agreement for provision of digital identifiers was concluded by and between the public foundation German National Library of Medicine, Information Centre for Life Sciences (Stiftung öffentlichen Rechts Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Medizin, Informations-Zentrum Lebenswissenschaften; ZB MED), having its principal place of business at Gleueler Str. 60, 50931 Köln, Germany and Oroboros Instruments (Schöpfstrasse 18, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria) as a Data Centre (DC), which entitles Oroboros Instruments to assign DOI names to selected publications (particularly preprints) and abstracts.
ZB MED is a member of DataCite e. V. and a procurement agency for digital object identifiers (DOI names). By offering its DOI registration service, ZB MED facilitates and promotes not-for-profit online publications in the fields of medicine, health, and nutritional, environmental and agricultural sciences.

Rights and obligations of Oroboros as DC

DC is responsible for:
a. the storage and ensuring the persistence of the scientific objects
b. the provision of access, review process and maintenance of the Metadata
c. the quality control

Property and user rights

  • The registration of scientific content does not include any transfer or assignment of ownership of any Intellectual Property right (IPR).
  • In all cases where copyright applies, DC warrants that it owns the copyright and intellectual property rights of the Metadata registered by ZB MED and is entitled to the registration of the objects. In the event third parties make claims against ZB MED or DataCite e. V. in connection with these rights, DC shall avert all claims against ZB MED or its cooperation partners and indemnify ZB MED and its cooperation partners for any claims by third parties which relate to any possible legal infringement through the storage and the distribution of Metadata, if the DC is at fault. This shall not apply, if the use of the Metadata by ZB MED constitutes a breach of the rights granted in the signed agreement.
  • ZB MED is entitled to integrate the metadata into ZB MED services, use the metadata and grant access to items of content by ZB MED services (e.g. cataloguing for ZB MED portals) or by the access services of cooperation partners.


Please note that DOIs can generally only be assigned to entire collections and their constituent parts – not to individual items from a collection. That means, for example, that we will assign DOIs for the articles that appear in our online journal Mitochondr Physiol Network, or in MitoPedia on a regular basis.

Contact at Oroboros

Iglesias-Gonzalez Javier, PhD
[email protected]