Why Publishers Should Care About Persistent Identifiers - The Scholarly Kitchen

peter.suber's bookmarks 2021-06-21

Summary:

"Publishers have also been less involved in the development of other PIDs and (likely related!) appear to be using them less than organizations in other sectors of the research community. For example, just six of the 60+ ROR community advisors are publishers. 

However, the use of PIDs in open access publishing does appear to be of interest to publishers, and open access (OA) publishers are also more likely to have a clear PID strategy (F1000 and Hindawi are good examples). This may be because functionally, attaching accurate grant information to open access articles is critical for accurate billing and (where applicable) for demonstrating compliance with transformative publishing agreements. We’d like to see all publishers embrace the use of PIDs — above and beyond simply collecting ORCID IDs and registering DOIs for publications — to help improve the user experience for their authors and reviewers, and enable accurate recognition for their contributions; to increase discoverability and, therefore, use of their publications; to ensure compliance with an increasing number of policies, including Plan S; and to facilitate better analysis and reporting. ...

With governments, funders, and institutions all working towards PID-optimized open infrastructure to reduce burden on researchers and increase transparency, publishers must be prepared to follow...."

Link:

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2021/06/21/why-publishers-should-care-about-persistent-identifiers/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.pids oa.standards oa.publishers oa.metadata oa.infrastructure

Date tagged:

06/21/2021, 09:04

Date published:

06/21/2021, 05:04