Finding DOIs for RAE submissions

We have had some requests for help in finding DOIs, (Digital Object Identifier), for the RAE. A typical DOI looks like this: doi:10.1006/jcph.1998.5920 and most journals published electronically will have one. Many publishers  include the DOI with the table of contents or abstract to each article.

How to find a DOI:
Use CrossRef’s DOI lookup tool: http://www.crossref.org/guestquery/ This should succeed if you input sufficient bibliographic detail but it does need: author surname and first name or initials, journal title, article title, year of publication, first page number, volume number.
If this fails to return the DOI, try searching an appropriate database in MetaLib and link to the full text using SFX or search the e-journal.
To test that the DOI works use the DOI resolver at: http://dx.doi.org/

If you can’t find a DOI
The HEFCE RAE team has estimated that only 80% of journal articles currently have a DOI so there will be a number of articles submitted that don’t have one, these are likely to be articles published in 2001 when DOIs were less commonly used..
For the 20% of articles that don’t have a DOI, a PDF file or if that is not available, a hard copy, will be required instead, this will be requested from you by the Research Office towards the end of 2007/early 2008.

If you need any help just contact your Academic Librarian.