DOI® number

Each paper published in Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Geography is assigned a unique DOI® number free of charge, which appears beneath the author's affiliation in the published paper. Funding for the assignment of identifiers is provided by the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

A digital object identifier (DOI) is a type of persistent identifier used to uniquely identify objects. With the help of this DOI number, the article can always be located.

DOI numbers consist of a publisher-assigned number and additional numbers or letters that identify the specific article. For example, 10.17721/1812-5409 refers to the Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Geography. Clicking on a DOI link takes you to one or more current URLs or other services related to a single resource. In particular, https://doi.org/10.17721/1728-2721 redirects you to the main page of our journal.

If you have written an article and are looking for the accompanying DOI, you can find it as follows:
In recent articles, the DOI number is given at the beginning of the article.

The DOI® system is particularly used for electronic documents such as journal articles. The DOI® system began in 2000 and is managed by the International DOI Foundation.

DOI means "digital identifier of an object" rather than "identifier of a digital object".

Metadata about the object is stored alongside the DOI. It may include a location, such as a URL, where the object can be found. The DOI for a document remains fixed throughout its lifetime, whereas its location and other metadata may change. Referring to an online document by its DOI provides more stable linking than simply using its URL, because if its URL changes, the publisher only needs to update the metadata for the DOI to point to the new URL.

A DOI name differs from standard identifier registries, such as the Journal Research Paper. The purpose of an identifier registry is to manage a given collection of identifiers, whereas the primary purpose of the DOI® system is to make a collection of identifiers actionable and interoperable.

Organisations that meet the contractual obligations of the DOI® system and are willing to pay to become members can assign DOIs. The DOI® system is implemented through a federation of registration agencies coordinated by the International DOI Foundation, which developed and controls the system. The DOI® system has been developed and implemented in a range of publishing applications since 2000; by late April 2011, more than 50 million DOI names had been assigned by some 4,000 organisations. By April 2013, this number had grown to 85 million DOI names assigned through 9,500 organisations. The DOI® system uses the Handle System but is not formally part of It.