Requesting a DOI

Enabling citations and tracking metrics

Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) are used to uniquely identify digital research objects, and provide a persistent link to the location of the object on the internet.

Macquarie University, via Australian Research Data Commons, is an authorised agent to mint DataCite DOIs for appropriate content published by Macquarie University.

A DataCite DOI should be minted where the data collection meets the following criteria:

• Access to the materials that comprise the collection will be open, mediated or embargoed. Data collections which are closed (eg due to ethical or legal constraints) should not have a DOI assigned to them.
• The material is a citable contribution to the scholarly record, analogous to a journal article.
• The collection metadata supports the provision of the five mandatory metadata elements required for compliance with the DataCite Metadata Schema.
• Macquarie University will support the management of the collection in the long term. This includes access and storage.
• The material does not already have a DOI assigned to it.
• The material is held in databases or systems managed by Macquarie University and not by a third party.

How to request a DOI

You can request a DOI for the following content types.

In scope:

• Research datasets and collections, associated workflows, software and models.
• Grey literature such as theses, reports, unpublished conference papers, newsletters, creative works, preprint journal articles, technical standards and specifications for which the institutional repository is the primary publication point.
• Other resource types that are in scope for DataCite.

Out of scope:

• Published peer-reviewed journal articles, ephemera, teaching and learning materials and book chapters.
• Digital objects that are not relevant to research.

We are using DataCite to mint DOIs in accordance with the Australian Research Data Commons Policy Statement.