ADS blog
Minting DOIs and the DataCite Commons
This blog post in our series takes a deeper dive into how we create DOIs for the ADS collections by a process known as ‘minting’, as…
ADS blog
How do DOIs affect me?
Digital Object Identifiers are clearly very helpful for data preservation and accessibility, but how do they make a difference for those who operate outside of digital…
ADS blog
How do DOIs benefit the ADS and other repositories?
All resources archived with the ADS are Open Access and delivered through our website to facilitate re-use by the heritage sector and wider community. But how…
ADS blog
URLs and Persistent Identifiers – What’s the Difference? Why DOIs should be cited more than URLs
Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), also commonly known as web addresses, are like house addresses in that they will direct you to a specific location in space…
ADS blog
Digital Object Identifiers: Linking Effectively
One of our top priorities at the ADS is to make our collections findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. This includes utilising sustainable referencing methods such as…
ADS blog
Linking the virtuous circles: Citation and Tracking Re-use.
The ADS has (for nearly 25 years!) been providing free access to resources deposited with us. We put them online in open/accessible formats, people use them,…
ADS blog
Persistence in Preservation and Publication of Data
To recognise the effort that authors make in order to deposit digital data and to get academic credit for that effort, Internet Archaeology (IA) and the…
