Support for DOI in other documents
The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is crucial in academic research and references. Especially for Internet research, it is crucial to produce persistent references.
However, there is little support for this in Zotero. The document type "Journal article" has a field for DOI, but for Book chapters, books, documents, podcasts, etc., there are no such fields - only the highly elusive URL.
More and more researchers need to reference their data with persistent references to web archives, using Persistent Web IDentifier (PWID). This is a kind of DOI, but at the moment, there is no support for DOI or PWID in other document types.
For newspapers, documents and other, a DOI or PWID field would be great to have!
Read more about PWID:
https://www.iana.org/assignments/urn-formal/pwid
However, there is little support for this in Zotero. The document type "Journal article" has a field for DOI, but for Book chapters, books, documents, podcasts, etc., there are no such fields - only the highly elusive URL.
More and more researchers need to reference their data with persistent references to web archives, using Persistent Web IDentifier (PWID). This is a kind of DOI, but at the moment, there is no support for DOI or PWID in other document types.
For newspapers, documents and other, a DOI or PWID field would be great to have!
Read more about PWID:
https://www.iana.org/assignments/urn-formal/pwid
You can add "DOI: 10.1234/abc" to the Extra field now to add a DOI in citations for item types where there's not yet a dedicated field.