[Eril-l] Two "home sites" for same journal, does DOI define canonical/authoritative?

Fri Sep 5 11:33:27 PDT 2025

This one is also an ebook example:
https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479853342.001.0001

Susan R. Barber
Electronic Resources Coordinator
Paul and Rosemary Trible Library
Christopher Newport University
sbarber at cnu.edu
757-594-7046

On Fri, Sep 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM Electronic Resources in Libraries
discussion list via Eril-l <eril-l at lists.eril-l.org> wrote:

> We've had trouble with these multi-platform options and DOI links in EBSCO
> KB.  Usually involves Duke ebooks.  Here is an example:
> https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478002284
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> ~~~~~ Kara S. Hart
> Systems Librarian - Library & Technology Services
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> Wellesley College
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> On Fri, Sep 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM Electronic Resources in Libraries
> discussion list via Eril-l <eril-l at lists.eril-l.org> wrote:
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>> Thank you, Susan, for that new information. I have never run into one of
>> those before. If anyone has an example, can you share it so we can all see
>> what it looks like? It sounds like something I'd like to share with the
>> rest of our librarians.
>>
>> Melissa Belvadi
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>> CrossRef’s statement sounds great!  In practice, though, I see LOTS of
>> DOIs that resolve to the copy on the publisher’s sales page, not to the
>> licensed content, to a more restrictive version, and other variations on
>> not getting the user to the copy they can access.
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>> Maybe this clarifies it:
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>> " CrossRef DOIs conventionally link the user to a single source of
>> material but, in select circumstances, an item might exist in multiple
>> locations or formats. The DOI specification supports a practice called
>> multiple resolution in which multiple URLs may be attached to a single DOI.
>> As implemented by CrossRef, instead of delivering the user directly to
>> content, the DOI resolves to an interim page containing citation metadata
>> and multiple links to an item. This feature has been enthusiastically
>> adopted by members who co-publish journals, as it allows them to dually
>> host an authoritative version of an article."
>> https://www.niso.org/niso-io/2010/06/dois-journals-linking-and-beyond
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>> Susan R. Barber
>> Electronic Resources Coordinator
>> Paul and Rosemary Trible Library
>> Christopher Newport University
>> sbarber at cnu.edu
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>> On Fri, Sep 5, 2025 at 8:59 AM Electronic Resources in Libraries
>> discussion list via Eril-l <eril-l at lists.eril-l.org> wrote:
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>> Thank you; a lot of this makes sense to me.
>>
>>
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>> However, a DOI can only ever point to one URL. There is no mechanism for
>> a specific DOI to point to more than one.
>>
>> If an article is available on more than one platform, each will have
>> different DOIs. I've seen this with JSTOR archival journal articles, for
>> instance.
>>
>> One of the major reasons for DOIs is that if the publisher changes their
>> platform so old direct article links would break, or the content is moved
>> to another platform through the sale or other kind of transfer/partnership,
>> the endpoint platform would tell Crossref etc. that that DOI now needs to
>> point to the new location.
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>> Hi, Melissa,
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>> Sometimes you end up with the two sites for the same journals when a
>> journal is hosted on a platform, but then for whatever reason, the
>> publisher decides to host it on their own platform either additionally or
>> while ending current access on the platform.
>>
>> However, if the publisher made a deal with the platform for them to host
>> content and sell it with perpetual access rights then you still have access
>> on the host site.
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>> So, for example if Journal of the Association of ABC Science didn't have
>> the ability to host it on the Association website, they might make a deal
>> with Science Direct to host the journal and allowed them to sell perpetual
>> access rights to the consumer. In this scenario SD is acting as a hosting
>> platform rather than Elsevier being the publisher.
>>
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>>
>> Then a decade later the Association website goes through an overhaul and
>> they can host the journal themselves now. They canceled the SD contract,
>> but since when they made the content originally, SD was allowed to sell it
>> with par it stays on the SD platform for those years for those who
>> purchased access through SD retain access to those years as they paid for
>> those years with a contract that included perpetual  access.
>>
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>> A DOI is a persistent identifier, but it does not specify a single URL,
>> so it is possible the DOI may point to either or sometimes both places. If
>> it points to both, there is usually a screen that comes up asking you to
>> choose the platform - which confuses patrons, because they don't know which
>> platform the library has the full-text with.
>>
>>
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>> And in some cases a journal could simply switch publishers for whatever
>> reason, but again if the previous publisher was able to keep access to the
>> years they published it then the DOI might show for that old publisher.
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>> I hope that makes sense.
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>>
>> Susan
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>> Susan R. Barber
>> Electronic Resources Coordinator
>> Paul and Rosemary Trible Library
>> Christopher Newport University
>> sbarber at cnu.edu
>>
>> 757-594-7046
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>> On Wed, Sep 3, 2025 at 9:19 AM Electronic Resources in Libraries
>> discussion list via Eril-l <eril-l at lists.eril-l.org> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I was exploring a situation involving a journal that has both a publisher
>> website with its full text archive and also some kind of partnership with
>> Elsevier so it also has a full text journal "home" site on ScienceDirect.
>> (SD) I've run into this before but this is the first time I explored in
>> more detail because our full text rights are not the same on both platforms
>> for certain archival years.
>>
>>
>>
>> I used one specific article from 2013 as my test case.
>>
>> Both sites give the same DOI for that article, and through Crossref, that
>> DOI takes you to the SD site, not the publisher site.
>>
>> I then tried searching the article title on Crossref just to be safe, and
>> that too led to only one DOI which was the SD one.
>>
>>
>>
>> I am deliberately not naming the journal because the official information
>> we got from the publisher is that they don't offer post-cancellation access
>> (PCA, also sometimes called "perpetual access rights" or PAR), and we don't
>> currently subscribe, and I don't want to draw attention to the fact that we
>> do have PCA on SD for the years we paid for in the past, just not on the
>> publisher website.  I have also verified that our access is not part of our
>> "Big Deal" package with SD.
>>
>>
>>
>> What's going on here? Have any of you explored this kind of situation in
>> more detail to figure out what's going on?
>>
>>
>>
>> More generally, what does it mean to the Schol Comm world for a journal
>> to have apparently two co-equal (in an authoritative sense) home sites? If
>> a citation to this article in another peer-reviewed journal gave the
>> publisher's URL rather than using the DOI, would they be 'wrong'?
>>
>> I can see authors thinking the publisher's site is the "official" one.
>> Does DOI override that? Should peer reviewers pay any attention to this, or
>> journal editors?
>>
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>>
>> Melissa Belvadi
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>> Collections Librarian
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