DOI: A key online tool for persistent content linking, ensuring accessibility and citation accuracy for journals at Brieflands.
DOI, CrossMark and other Crossref Services
A Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a persistent link to an article: it keeps working through website migrations, platform changes, and even a change of publisher. Brieflands is a Crossref member and registers DOIs under its own prefix, 10.5812 — with CrossMark, Similarity Check, and Cited-by activated on top of them.
Need DOIs and Crossref services for your journal?
We can register DOIs for new articles and your back catalogue, deposit full metadata and references, and activate CrossMark and Cited-by — whether your journal publishes with us or on its own platform. Priced by custom quotation.
Why persistent identifiers matter
Citations only count when they resolve. A DOI gives every article one stable, clickable address, so reference lists, indexing databases, and citation trackers all point at the same object — no broken links, no lost citations, no manual correction of URLs after a redesign. Because DOIs are registered with structured metadata, they also reduce human error in references and let services aggregate citation counts accurately.
Indexers read your Crossref record. Complete metadata and reference deposit with each DOI is what powers reference linking and Cited-by across the scholarly record — and DOAJ lists the use of persistent article identifiers among its best practices. A journal with clean Crossref metadata is simply easier for every downstream service to trust.
Crossref services we provide
All deposits are generated automatically from the same XML source used for publication.
DOI registration
A DOI for every article — new issues and back catalogue — deposited with full bibliographic metadata under the Brieflands prefix 10.5812.
CrossMark
The CrossMark button on articles tells readers whether the version they are reading is current, corrected, or retracted — the update status travels with the DOI, even on downloaded PDFs.
Similarity Check (iThenticate)
Crossref's Similarity Check, powered by iThenticate — formerly branded CrossCheck. Every Brieflands journal screens submissions for text overlap; see plagiarism control.
Cited-by
Cited-by shows readers and authors who has cited each article, with counts aggregated from Crossref metadata and displayed on the article page.
Reference deposit
Article reference lists are deposited alongside the metadata, activating reference linking in both directions across publishers.
Metadata quality
Funders, ORCID iDs, licence information, and abstracts included in deposits where available, keeping participation scores high.
How it works
Brieflands in Crossref
Our deposits are public. You can verify the completeness of Brieflands metadata in Crossref's own Participation Report for member 3819, or look up any of our articles by DOI at search.crossref.org using the prefix 10.5812.