# Generate DOI without accessing OJS

**URL:** <https://community.crossref.org/t/generate-doi-without-accessing-ojs/3343>\
**Category:** New members\
**Tags:** ojs, web\_deposit\_form, content-registration, constructing\_dois\
**Created:** [20 February 2023 19:19 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/generate-doi-without-accessing-ojs/3343 "2023-02-20T19:19:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![agallalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bbe5ce/32.png) [@agallalin](https://community.crossref.org/u/agallalin)\
**Post date:** [20 February 2023 19:19 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/generate-doi-without-accessing-ojs/3343/1 "2023-02-20T19:19:30Z")

</div>

Can you help me please? Is it possible to generate DOI without registering an article in OJS?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![ifarley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.crossref.org/ifarley/32/44_2.png) [@ifarley](https://community.crossref.org/u/ifarley)\
**Post date:** [21 February 2023 21:12 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/generate-doi-without-accessing-ojs/3343/2 "2023-02-21T21:12:56Z")

</div>

Hi @agallalin ,

Yes, it is possible to construct and register a DOI without OJS. You can use our web deposit form, if you like. I’m including instructions on how to register a DOI using that form.

Broadly speaking, assuming you have recently published a new issue of your journal and you want to register DOIs for all articles in the issue, the steps to take to use the [web deposit form](https://apps.crossref.org/webDeposit/) are:

1. Select the Journal data type
2. Enter the Journal and Issue level metadata on the first page of the form. At minimum this includes: Journal title, abbreviated journal title, ISSN(s), and at least one publication year (print or online). If applicable, also enter issue number, volume number, and full publication dates.  
[Journal DOI and Issue DOI are optional. If you don’t wish to deposit Journal-level and Issue-level DOIs, simply leave these fields as well as Journal URL and Issue URL empty. Keep in mind that, if you do deposit a Journal DOI, it refers to the journal as a whole, and therefore cannot change in future deposits]
3. Select ‘Add Articles’
4. On the second page of the form, enter the metadata for your first article (article title, authors, page numbers if available), the article DOI, and article URL
5. Click ‘Add Another Article’
6. Continue to enter article metadata, DOIs, and URLs until you’ve entered all articles for the given issue.
7. Click ‘Finish’
8. Enter your username and password and click Login
9. Enter your email address and click ‘Deposit’

We also have a web deposit form [video tutorial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=oahViGn66yQ) and [full instructions for using the web deposit form](https://www.crossref.org/documentation/member-setup/web-deposit-form/) in our documentation.

-Isaac

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![ifarley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.crossref.org/ifarley/32/44_2.png) [@ifarley](https://community.crossref.org/u/ifarley)\
**Post date:** [21 February 2023 21:14 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/generate-doi-without-accessing-ojs/3343/3 "2023-02-21T21:14:01Z")

</div>

And, if you need assistance in constructing the DOIs you eventually register with us:

Crossref doesn’t assign DOIs to your content for you. Instead, we assign you a DOI prefix (a string of numbers beginning “10.” and followed by a slash “/”) and you assign your own DOIs by using that prefix and creating a suffix (any string of numbers, letters, and/or certain allowed punctuation marks following the prefix and “/”). Your DOI suffix can be any alphanumeric string, using the approved characters “a-z”, “A-Z”, “0-9” and “-.\_;()/”.

To review our suggested best practices for establishing DOI suffix pattern, please see the following document:

> **[Constructing your DOIs - Crossref](https://www.crossref.org/documentation/member-setup/constructing-your-dois/)**
>
> Crossref allows citation linking using Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) between research produced by different organizations (without the need for individual agreements between them). This ensures that citation links are persistent - that they work...

Please let me know if you have any additional questions.

Kind regards,  
Isaac