Assigning a Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

Please note: A data DOI meets the Chief Directorate requirement for a publication.

In order to receive a DOI the datasets should be formatted in a community-accepted standard and should have gone through quality assurance by a person with the relevant knowledge. When you submit the data to MIMS please let the data curation team know that you would like a DOI to be assigned to the data. There are certain metadata elements that will be mandatory in order to assign a DOI to the data, so the data curators will help make sure that you have all the necessary elements filled in.