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Requesting a DOI or Other Persistent Identifier

University Libraries Services for DOIs, ARKs, and other information about persistent identifiers

What is a Persistent Identifier (PID)?

Persistent Unique Identifiers (PIDs) are globally unique, persistent, machine-resolvable digital identifiers with an associated metadata schema.

How to Use PIDs: They link researchers and research outputs to their underlying data and associated metadata

Persistent Identifiers covered in this guide:

  • Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
  • ISBN
  • ISSN
  • ORCID

Special thanks to Jesse Long (https://transportation.libguides.com/persistent_identifiers), Jennifer Muilenburg (https://guides.lib.uw.edu/research/PID), and Anna Neatrour (https://campusguides.lib.utah.edu/identifiers) for permission to use text from their Libguides on persistent identifiers.