February 10, 2025 The Rosenblum Award for Scholarly Publishing Impact, celebrates innovations that have transformed scholarly publishing, has announced the DOI for Scholarly Publishing as its inaugural winner.
The Rosenblum Award for Scholarly Publishing Impact celebrates and preserves the historical record of innovations that have had a major impact on scholarly communications, focusing on technologies, standards, or practices that have become an indispensable component of the scholarly publishing ecosystem. The award does not recognize individuals or organizations directly, nor does it carry a monetary prize. Instead, it honors elements of the ecosystem that enable the production, dissemination, and collaboration essential to scholarly communication.
The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for Scholarly Publishing was the clear choice as the initial recipient of the Award. Over the past three decades, since its adoption by Crossref, the DOI has become a critical feature of the connective ecosystem for scholarly outputs of all types. DOIs ensure that research objects are always discoverable, even if web structures change or content moves. This is extremely important for researchers and the integrity of the scholarly ecosystem.
