DOI allocating procedure

1) Request for DOI allocation

With authorization of publication, an authorized editorial commission decides (yes/no) to the DOI allocation request. If the author, or possibly editor requests DOI allocation, it is necessary to provide both the manuscript and metadata to Mendel University Press according to the following demands.

2) Required metadata for DOI allocation (all provided electronically)

• Publication title (title of collection, in case of conference collection also title of conference), authors, editors;
• Abstract in original language and in English;
• Cost center’s number, which pays for costs of DOI allocation;
• References References in word document (if a manuscript is provided to publishing house in camera ready form, references must be saved in word without formatting, references must be separated by „enter“);
• Date and location of conference (only in case of conference and its collection);
• Information about where the publication can be bought or downloaded; if a full text in pdf format is provided, the publication can be uploaded to web http://doi.mendelu.cz.
• In case of collections it must be stated whether one DOI is requested for the whole collection or one DOI for each individual articles.

Every publication with allocated DOI has its own response/landing page (a page containing publications description) at http://doi.mendelu.cz.

In case of collection, or a publication composed of articles from various authors, it is possible do allocate DOI even to single chapters and parts.

3) DOI assembling

• DOI consists of two parts: prefix/suffix
• The university has prefix 10.11118
• Suffix for periodicals: e.g. "actaun.2021.001" (<magazine’s acronym>.<year of publishing>.<number of article>), this structure allows “Ahead of print“,
• Suffix for non-periodicals: <ISBN>,
• Suffix for single chapters/contributions: <ISBN>-<nnnn> (nnnn – chapter‘s number in publication or first page);