Answered By: Your Library Team
Last Updated: Feb 19, 2024     Views: 610

Only objects intended to remain available for the long term or be cited in a publication should be assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI).

  • If you are publishing a research paper, your publisher would normally assign a DOI to the paper as part of their publication process.
  • For datasets, research software code and other research outputs, you can obtain a DOI by depositing them in the University’s research data repository ORDA, or in one of a number of other discipline-specific and general-purpose data repositories.

You can find more information on our webpages on sharing research data and ORDA. If you have any questions, email the Library’s Research Data Management team at rdm@sheffield.ac.uk.