Reprints Desk, Inc. has announced the completion of an information systems and technology project for assimilating more than 40 million digital object identifiers (DOIs) from CrossRef Metadata Services into the content transaction engine that powers the company's Article Galaxy document delivery management system.
CrossRef assigns DOIs to millions of scholarly documents. These CrossRef DOIs provide unique identifiers and persistent links to journal articles and book chapters on the internet. Publishers provide metadata and URLs to CrossRef, and CrossRef in turn makes this metadata available for discovery through CrossRef Metadata Services. CrossRef Metadata Services will enable Reprints Desk to further boost the turnaround speed and data reporting quality for the company's top-rated single article research retrieval ("document delivery") service.
Research-driven organisations rely on document delivery as a legal method for retrieving single copies of full-text research papers from scholarly peer-reviewed journals when subscriptions do not exist. Reprints Desk has held lone honors as the top-rated document delivery supplier in every document delivery market research survey conducted by information analyst and advisory firm Outsell, Inc., since 2008. Reprints Desk was founded by Peter Derycz, a pioneer in the document delivery business since 1987 when he originally founded Infotrieve, Inc.
CrossRef serves as the digital hub of the scholarly communications community. It is a not-for profit membership organisation of global scholarly publishers, shaping the future of scholarly communications through cross-publisher collaboration. CrossRef provides a wide spectrum of services for identifying, locating, linking to and assessing the reliability and provenance of scholarly content. It is also the largest DOI registration agency.
