Answered By: Kelly Smith
Last Updated: Aug 21, 2023     Views: 2069

In EBSCOhost subject databases, the DOI usually appears in the information under the title for each article in a list of search results and will be preceded by DOI. 

The DOI also appears near the bottom of the full record view that appears when you click on or select a title and will be labeled DOI.

In the EBSCOhost Discovery search, you will need to click on or select the title to view an article's full record to find the DOI. The DOI will be located at the very bottom of the record page. In fact, it's so far at the bottom it's hard to capture an effective screenshot to show where it is located. 

 

EBSCOhost occasionally will not include a DOI for an article at all:

Sometimes this is because the journal publishing the article does not assign DOIs, but sometimes the DOI is left off by mistake. You can check to see if an article should have a DOI by using a tool like CrossRef.

On CrossRef, you will switch to the Search Metadata tab and enter the title of the article for you need to find a DOI:

Search Metadata tab on the CrossRef website

If a DOI is available for the article, CrossRef should include it in the information about the article:

Location of the DOI in a CrossRef article result.

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