scientific edition of Bauman MSTU

SCIENCE & EDUCATION

Bauman Moscow State Technical University.   El № FS 77 - 48211.   ISSN 1994-0408

# 20, June 2014

DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) are unique alphanumeric identifiers assigned to all articles to be published under the main headings of the journal "Science and Education. Bauman MSTU" in global Internet space.

DOI consists of two parts separated by a slash. The first part (a prefix) that is prior to the first slash identifies publisher’s e-resource code (every publisher has a unique own code). The other part (after slash) is formed by the publisher and may be represented, as any alphanumeric character set to be valid for the Internet resource address.

A DOI system works as follows. If the prefix http://dx.doi.org/ is added to DOI, there will be a correct URL, which, when used in a browser, will be a link to the page describing the article to which this DOI is assigned. As a rule, in the text of an e-resource, DOI is a hyperlink that provides automatic redirection to the e-resource that was assigned the DOI.

Currently, a great number of English language journals and other electronic resources for data exchange in the scientific community use DOI. Its main advantage is uniqueness (there are no e-resources with the same DOI) and consistency (once assigned, the DOI is unchanged, even if the e-resource changes its Internet address).

In our journal DOI is assigned to each published article. However, to use DOI as a reference to the article, the DOI should be activated on the DOI site ( http://dx/doi/org ). Due to a sizeable number of publications in our journal, DOIs are activated once a quarter, so the link using DOI remains inactive for some time after the article has been published.