OASPA Agreement with CrossRef on behalf of Scholar Publishers

"OASPA is pleased to announce that we have come to an agreement with CrossRef on an Association-sponsored membership on behalf of our scholar publishers. The agreement enables our scholar publisher members to register Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) without needing to become individual members of CrossRef. All scholar publisher members of OASPA may now register up to 50 DOIs per year, at no charge. The use of DOIs is a standard OASPA wishes to promote. DOIs are important in an electronic environment as they provide individual articles with a permanent 'home' (a post office box, if you like), which remains constant regardles of whether URL locations should be altered. The cost of participating in CrossRef has been a barrier earlier for many scholar publishers and we believe this agreement will make it easier for this group to ensure visibility for the work they publish...."