EIFL webinar: Importance of providing detailed metadata when registering DOI (Digital Object Identifiers)

Learn why it is important to provide detailed metadata when registering DOIs, what to include and how to improve metadata quality

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TYPE:
Webinar
PRESENTER:
Tatjana Timotijević, National Library of Serbia
DATE:
February 2026
DOCUMENT LANGUAGE:
English
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Recording of an EIFL webinar (52 minutes) for journal editors, publishers, librarians and everyone involved in DOI registration. Tatjana Timotijević (National Library of Serbia) shows how providing comprehensive metadata when registering DOIs for research output supports indexing, citation tracking and interoperability with scholarly databases. 

A DOI is a permanent, unique link to a research output that makes it easy to find, cite, and reliably access over time. While it is usually sufficient to submit only basic information such as author names and titles when registering DOIs, rich metadata (abstracts, keywords, references, persistent identifiers for authors and institutions, funding information) significantly improve discoverability, linking with related research, and integration of scholarly outputs into indexing services. 

The webinar provides guidance on improving metadata quality.

See the slides of the webinar (PDF).