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An Introduction To Persistent Identifiers, QA Focus briefing document no. 80, UKOLN,
<http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/qa-focus/documents/briefings/briefing-80/>

This document was published on 26^th May 2005.

References

The following references are given in the document:

1. International DOI Foundation,
   <http://doi.org/>
2. PURL,
   <http://purl.org/>
3. CrossRef,
   <http://www.crossref.org/>
4. Cool URIs Don't Change, W3C,
   <http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html>

Further Information

The following additional resources may be useful:

1. Persistent Locators for Federal Government Publications, Summary of a study conducted for the Depository Services Program and the National Library of Canada, November 2002, Meredith Dickison
   <http://www.collectionscanada.ca/8/4/r4-500-e.html>
2. Guidelines For URI Naming Policies, B. Kelly, Ariadne, Issue 31, March 2002
   <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue31/web-focus/>

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