STEP BY STEP FOR USING CROSSREF

[chrisAndersen]

hi guys,

I'm new to OJS and am editing aboriginal policy studies at the University of Alberta, Faculty of Native Studies. The first issue just came out (http://www.ualberta.ca/nativestudies/aps). I just wanted to say thanks for all the hard work and dedication you've put into this process (both with OJS and those who have contributed to the forums). It's really amazing to have this level of support at the end of my fingertips.

However:

I'm not in any way technically oriented and am having an extreme amount of trouble figuring out how to add DOIs to my journal articles. I've purchased the membership with Crossref and have received a 'general' DOI for the journal (i think, anyway) but i don't know how to generate DOIs for the individual articles. I've spent four hours going through the boards, checking OJS in an hour, etc. and am still stumped. The DOI instructions I have found so far on the forum are too technical in nature for me to really use in implementing. I have a DOI from CrossRef, and I’ve populated the places in setup where the DOI prefix needs to be, but I don’t’ know what to do next. Can you please itemize the steps I need to take to implement DOI in OJS v2.3.4, in plain language?

any help you can provide me with would be much appreciated.

thanks!

Chris Andersen
Editor, aboriginal policy studies

[jmacgreg]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the kind words! We're always happy to help.

When it comes to Crossref, rest assured that you aren't the first one to experience difficulties in getting it set up. Probably the most useful thread on our forum is this one, where Mike Nason covers the steps the University of New Brunswick goes to get their DOIs registered/harvested with Crossref. Basically, this boils down to the following few steps:

1 - get your DOI prefix from Crossref, and add it to your journal under Journal Setup Step 1;
2 - also under Journal Setup Step 1, set how you want your DOI suffix to be generated (which is up to you);
3 - after you publish content, use the Crossref XML Export plugin (Journal Management -> Import/Export Data -> Crossref XML Export Plugin) to generate a Crossref XML file that includes your DOIs, and can be then submitted to Crossref manually.

Right now OJS doesn't do much to publicly display the DOI , but this will change in the future (see this report). It'd be great if OJS could submit the DOI information automatically, rather than rely on the Editor submitting manually after issue publication, but that's a service that Crossref themselves would have to provide.

If you have any further questions, please let us know!

Cheers,
James

[acauchi]

I hope am posting my query at the right place. With reference to this post and using Crossref I have been informed that in exporting to Crossref we are using an older version of schema. Crossref told us that schema versions prior to 4.3.0 have been discontinued. We have been directed to use a new version 4.3.0 in our header line and redeposit the file.

Can you please guide us what we need to do?

[aleskl]

I hope am posting my query at the right place. With reference to this post and using Crossref I have been informed that in exporting to Crossref we are using an older version of schema. Crossref told us that schema versions prior to 4.3.0 have been discontinued. We have been directed to use a new version 4.3.0 in our header line and redeposit the file.

I checked the output of Crossref export plugin and it generates XML using 4.3.0 schema (I'm using OJS 2.3.6). Probably you need to update the Crossref export plugin. What version of OJS are you using?

-ales

[thebigaym]

The CrossRef plugin is inserting the following characters before the <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>



What's going on?

[jmacgreg]

Hi thebigaym,

Which version of OJS are you using?

Cheers,
James

[thebigaym]

Open Journal Systems 2.3.6.0

Note. I did an export yesterday, and it did not insert the characters. Hmm...

[jmacgreg]

Hi thebigaym,

Strange -- I can't replicate this either. Are you exporting the same articles/issues each time with different results?

Cheers,
James

[asmecher]

Hi all,

That's the UTF-8 BOM (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark#UTF-8); chances are that you're reading the file in an editor that doesn't know how to handle the encoding, or somehow two BOMs have been inserted into the file. A hex dump of the file might help to determine whether there's an extra BOM or just an editor having trouble with the legit one.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[thebigaym]

I had been using TextPad (textpad.com), but it did not reveal these characters.

CrossRef support recommended:

Please use Programmer's File Editor. The XML editor will automatically remove the invalid characters.
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/steveb/cpaap/pfe/pfefiles.htm

This did display the UTF-8 BOM in the XML file OJS created, and I was able to remove the characters.

[thebigaym]

How do I get the CrossRef plugin to fill in the <registrant> tag?

Right now, I have to manually edit the file each time.

[jmacgreg]

Hi thebigaym,

See the instructions here.

Cheers,
James

[thebigaym]

worked like a charm! thanks.