The DOI for Scholarly Publishing recognized as the inaugural winner of the Rosenblum Award for Scholarly Publishing Impact

"The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for Scholarly Publishing was the clear choice as the initial recipient of the Award. Over the past three decades, since its adoption by Crossref, the DOI has become a critical feature of the connective ecosystem for scholarly outputs of all types. DOIs ensure that research objects are always discoverable, even if web structures change or content moves. This is extremely important for researchers and the integrity of the scholarly ecosystem. The availability of DOI metadata facilitates many other back-end information management systems, such as holdings and appropriate-copy resolution via related standards such as OpenURL. Simplified reference management tools, assessment measurement, new forms of relational search, and other applications centered on DOI metadata were built upon this infrastructure. The DOI system soon extended into new domains, such as DataCite’s identification of data sets. By driving attention to the value of persistent linking and a robust resolution service, the DOI for Scholarly Publishing has vastly improved the efficiency and effectiveness of scholarly communications...."