[okfn-discuss] doi equivalent?

[Peter Suber]

Hi Graham,

You should consider OpenURL (a NISO standard since 2005),
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenURL>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenURL

Here's an argument that OpenURL is superior to DOI,
<http://www.chemspider.com/open-chemistry-web/openurl.html>http://www.chemspider.com/open-chemistry-web/openurl.html 


      Good luck,
      Peter


At 03:38 PM 9/2/2009, graham wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm new to this list so this may be a faq - if so please point me in the
>right direction!
>
>Is there any free equivalent to the DOI naming system (http://doi.org/) ?
>
>I'm looking for something to generate unique ids for a potentially large
>set of publications in .epub format. I'd like something which would let
>them be part of a larger ecology when released (as with doi numbers) but
>which doesn't cost money (don't have any) and isn't a proprietary system
>(not certain about doi - it's certainly copyrighted and trademarked)
>
>Thanks
>Graham
>
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