Using DOI's with OJS

[istoyanov]

Thanks a lot for the hint, Alec!

[istoyanov]

Now, having the specified DOI format generated by OJS, it seems that we need[1] to display the DOIs "... in bibliographic headers for online AND print articles". Currently, OJS displays the DOI only in the "Indexing Metadata" reading tool, but I feel that it would be beneficial if there is a way to display the corresponding DOI, for example, besides the title in article view and, perhaps, below the abstract or above the title in the TOC (see the mock-up attached below).



My question here: is such a "DOI-integration" doable through simple editing of the journal templates?

[1] http://www.crossref.org/help/Content/06 ... ctices.htm

[asmecher]

Hi istoyanov,

Yes, this should be a simple template modification. Anywhere that you have access to a PublishedArticle object, you should be able to call $publishedArticle->getDOI(). For example, in the Table of Contents listing (templates/issue/issue.tpl), you can add the DOI by dropping the following anywhere inside the {foreach from=$section.articles item=article} loop:

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{$article->getDOI()|escape}

(The $article variable in this case is actually a PublishedArticle object, not an Article object.)

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[istoyanov]

Huge thanks, Alec!

[jalperin]

For all those interested in the use of DOI's in OJS, there is a proposed patch located here:
http://pkp.sfu.ca/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3401

This has not been tested and is only a proposed patch. This said, any interested persons could install it, try it, and providing some feedback. The patch allows journal managers to modify the way DOI's are created through an interface (Setup Step 2), instead of by programming something inside the getDOI() function.

[mcyzyk]

the next release will generate DOIs as part of the article metadata, given a journal DOI prefix.

Where is this DOI then exposed in the metadata? In the Dublin Core feed? The METS feed? I'm not seeing it there. Is there something I need to configure so it shows up? I've already configured a journal prefix.

Thanks,

Mark Cyzyk
Johns Hopkins University

[jmacgreg]

Hi Mark,

Which version of OJS are you using? Juan's patch was included in 2.2.3/2.3. The DOI is then included in the article indexing metadata in the Reading Tool, and is also embedded within the HTML galley page source as DC meta information. The METS plugin may be lagging behind in this regard, as may be others. Can you explain what you mean by Dublin Core feed before I add this as an entry (or entries) to Bugzilla?

Cheers,
James

[mcyzyk]

Thanks, James!

I am using a 2.3 beta version. The "DC" feed I was referring to is the Dublin Core exposed by default via OAI-PMH. We'd like to be able to harvest metadata, including any DOIs. I was thinking the DOI would be present both in the OAI-PMH feed and in the output of the METS plugin, but am not seeing it in either of those places.

Best regards,

Mark

[jmacgreg]

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the further detail! I've checked a number of plugins, and it looks like DOI information is missing more often than not. I've reported this as a general bug: http://pkp.sfu.ca/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4965. This entry might get split up, but please feel free to CC yourself to it for further updates, and also add any comments you might have.

Cheers,
James

[crlsgms]

Hello everyone!

I wish to customize the DOI sulfix that i can atribute to the articles, and theres some suggestions on the journal itself, but i wish to know where can I see all the fields i can use, and maybe how can i customize automatic fileds, since 15 chars is the limit.

I wanna something like issn.year.v.n.id, or see what combination I can get with all the %X probabilities.

thanks!

[jalperin]

Carlos,

you should be able to modify the getDOI method by adding an extra special character for the issn and anything else you need. do send us a patch of your change.

[jqj]

Carlos Gomes notes that DOI suffix templates are limited to 15 characters. DOIs of course have essentially unlimited lengths. Is there any particular reason for limiting suffix templates? Is the limitation just in the maxlength param in bs/manager/setup/1? That form tag is

input name="doiSuffixPattern" value="" size="15" maxlength="15" id="doiSuffixPattern" class="textField" type="text"

We'd prefer to be able to specify a more complex syntax for our DOIs, since we share our prefix among multiple services.

[jmacgreg]

Hi JQ,

You are correct about where the limitation resides. I don't believe there's any reason in particular that this limitation is so short, and I've added a bug report to that effect here: http://pkp.sfu.ca/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6290. Please feel free to CC yourself to the report for future updates. You can also implement the fix as described in the report itself.

Cheers,
James

[Tadas]

I want to add custom DOI for every single article, because our DOI for older issues were made by one pattern, newer by another pattern, so automaticaly we can't generate it in any way... Is there any possibility to enter manualy DOI for each article in metadata editor mode?

I'm using OJS 2.3.4.

[jalperin]

If I remember correctly. You can use the Custom Identifier field. You need to enable that in the Journal Settings (there's a place to use custom identifiers for issues and/or articles and/or galleys, you need to enable articles). Then set the DOI to use the custom identifier.

Another option is to hack your install... You can edit the getDOI function to use one pattern for older things.

You'd have to maintain that with upgrades, which is a bit of a pain, but it wouldn't be terrible...