DOI Content Negotiation

Do you need to get DOI metadata in RDF?
Do you need to include a journal article metadata in the references of a publication in a specific format?
Do you want to provide your customers with over 6,900 ways to cite your content?

Content negotiation can help you.

You just need to use common web browser tools, specify which metadata format you want and you will get it back in a blink of an eye.

What's cool is that you don't need to know the Registration Agency where the DOI has been registered to get the metadata: whether mEDRA, CrossRef or DataCite it works, because the DOI resolver knows which Registration Agency stores the metadata and gets it for you.

What is content negotiation?

Content negotiation is a common service run by mEDRA, CrossRef and DataCite Registration Agencies, enabled as an additional way to represent resources identified by DOIs and to make available and disseminate DOI metadata.
Content negotiation and citation formatter can be integrated in content management systems and reference management software that use formatted bibliographic references for content publishing.

For DOIs registered with mEDRA, metadata can be requested in the following formats:

To see how it works and get different representations of DOI metadata, or to get DOI metadata as formatted bibliographic entry, use a web browser application (e.g. Postman for Google Chrome), input the DOI name, set the Accept header to one of the available formats, and see how easily you can retrieve DOI metadata.

To retrieve DOI metadata as a formatted citation, you can also use the citation formatter, a simple web user interface that allows input of a DOI, style and locale selection.
Choose from over 6,900 citation styles and see how easily you can retrieve DOI metadata as bibliographic reference.

Content negotiation and citation formatter can be integrated in content management systems and reference management software that use formatted bibliographic references for content publishing.

What happens to my DOIs?

DOI registration procedures remain the same: DOI names and the related metadata deposited in mEDRA database continue to be stored and maintained without additional fees.

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