PIDs to support discovery and citation: persistent identifier service design and delivery at UNSW library

Persistent identifiers (PIDs) are a key technology in enabling access and interoperability between systems involved in scholarly communication. This paper discusses persistent identifier strategies and services implemented at UNSW Library for institutional and faculty-based digital repositories. In particular, the paper describes the UNSW DOI Service, which is an application that allows researchers to request or mint DOIs. The service has been designed to meet multiple use cases, and reuses descriptive metadata to make the process of getting a DOI as simple and efficient as possible.