Geoffrey Bilder

TL;DR On November 11th 2020, the Crossref Board voted to adopt the “Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure� (POSI). POSI is a list of sixteen commitments that will now guide the board, staff, and Crossref’s development as an organisation into the future. It is an important public statement to make in Crossref’s twentieth anniversary year.

TL;DR Crossref discourages our members from using DOI-like strings or fake DOIs. Details Recently we have seen quite a bit of debate around the use of so-called “fake-DOIs.� We have also been quoted as saying that we discourage the use of “fake DOIs� or “DOI-like strings�. This post outlines some of the cases in which we’ve seen fake DOIs used and why we recommend against doing so. Some of our members use DOI-like strings as internal identifiers for their manuscript tracking systems.