FW: [News] DOI News - August 2003

["Hamaker, Chuck" <cahamake@email.uncc.edu>]

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DOI News - August 2003

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Ten millionth DOI Assigned

In August 2003, the ten millionth Digital Object Identifier was assigned,
marking another milestone in the evolution of the DOI System.

The ten millionth DOI was assigned via the Registration Agency, CrossRef,
as a persistent, interoperable, and extensible identifier to a technical
article in a journal published by Springer Verlag, which resolves to the
full text through the Springer Link service:

DOI: 10.1007/s00348-003-0647-4
( http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00348-003-0647-4 )

It is appropriate that the ten millionth DOI was assigned by CrossRef
(http://www.crossref.org/), as this service (a collaboration now extending
to 234 publishers and 129 libraries) was the first and still largest
assigner of DOIs.  However other uses of DOIs are now widespread; examples
assigned to books, images, technical reports, and government documents,
etc. may be seen at http://www.doi.org/demos.html.

For further information please see the DOI web site at http://www.doi.org/.

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