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DOI Registration Agencies

To register a DOI one has to enter into a contract with a DOI registration agency that is member of the International DOI Foundation. Several such agencies exist. Different DOI registration agencies have different policies. Some of them offer DOI registration specially or only for academic environment, others only for publishing companies. Most of the registration agencies charge fees for registering DOIs, all of them have different rules describing for what kind of item a DOI can be registered.

DataCite is an international initiative to promote science and research and a member of the Internation DOI Foundation. The members of DataCite act as registration agencies for DOIs. If you want to register DOIs within DSpace for a scientific or academic repository, you can contact the DataCite member next to you and ask if the fit your purposes. Some DataCite members provide own APIs to reserve and register DOIs, others let their clients use the API from DataCite directly. Since version 4.0 DSpace supports using the API of DataCite directly and the API of the DOI registration agency named EZID, located in the U.S. 

DSpace DOI Configuration

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Limitations of DSpace DOI support

Adding support for other Registration Agencies