Publisher
doi.org
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doi.org is the domain for the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system, a foundational infrastructure for academic and scientific publishing. It is not itself a news source or publication, but rather a persistent identifier system operated by the International DOI Foundation, a non-profit organization established in 1998. DOI.org serves as a resolver and registry that directs users to scholarly articles, datasets, and other digital objects across thousands of publishers and repositories worldwide. The system is maintained to the highest standards of academic integrity and is universally trusted in academic, scientific, medical, and research communities. All major publishers (Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, PLOS, arXiv, etc.) and institutional repositories use DOIs to ensure persistent access to research outputs.
Key factors
- Infrastructure role, not content provider — doi.org is a resolver and identifier system, not a news organization or publisher. It directs to content hosted elsewhere. Credibility assessment applies to the underlying content publishers, not to doi.org itself.
- Governance by International DOI Foundation — Operated by a non-profit, multi-stakeholder international body established in 1998 with broad representation from publishers, libraries, and research organizations.
- Universal adoption in academic publishing — Used as the standard persistent identifier across virtually all major scholarly publishers and repositories, reflecting deep trust and integration into research infrastructure.
- Technical standards and persistence guarantees — DOIs provide persistent linking and metadata verification, ensuring that cited research remains accessible and traceable even as URLs change.
- No editorial or fact-checking function — doi.org does not create, edit, or fact-check content. It only identifies and resolves to it. Quality control resides with the underlying publishers.
Editorial standards
Not applicable as a news or publishing entity. doi.org operates under technical and governance standards set by the International DOI Foundation, including DOI syntax, metadata requirements, and registration protocols. All registered DOIs include standardized metadata (title, creators, publication date, publisher) to ensure discoverability and attribution.
Fact-checking
Not applicable. doi.org is not a content publisher and does not produce claims subject to fact-checking. It is a technical infrastructure service.
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