Can a sci-fi book have a DOI?

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Hello forum members. I’m glad to join you.

I am Ukrainian, and I live and work in Ukraine. In my spare time, I conduct independent research in the field of cryptocurrencies. I enjoy applying science in practice, and math is particularly helpful for me. I graduated from Donetsk National University in 2008 with a Master’s degree in Biophysics. If there are any biophysicists here, they will agree that students in this field study math quite deeply.

I recently published a book on Amazon titled Math Bitcoin Price Prediction: 2030, 2040, 2050. My translator described it as having a Sci-Fi style, which I liked. What sets it apart from similar predictions is its mathematical approach. The book provides an overview of possible bitcoin price paths depending on various conditions and has received several positive scientific reviews from PhDs in Economics and Computer Science.

I’m not promoting the book; I’m just sharing the preamble. I am willing to provide a free copy of the book to all team members of this forum, as well as to registered members engaged in scientific research who have publications in scientific journals. Please post your request in this thread or send me a private message, and I will send you a PDF. If you can leave a review of the book, that would be wonderful; if not, no problem—I don’t require it. You can find examples of reviews in the introductory section of the book on Amazon, as well as on the website page about the book.

Now, I would like to ask the questions for which I registered on the forum:

  1. Can this Sci-Fi book have a DOI?
  2. Can another researcher cite this book in their research even if it does not have a DOI? It has an ASIN, not an ISBN.
  3. Can I obtain a DOI for my research papers written before 2010? They do not have an electronic version, only a paper version.

Thanks in advance.

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Hello, and thanks for your message.

Crossref DOIs can only be registered by organization that produce professional and scholarly materials and content - most commonly, this means publishers.

We don’t enable authors to register individuals DOIs for their own publications.

There’s nothing that would technically prevent a publisher member of Crossref from registering a DOI for a sci-fi book, though it’s not typical. The benefits of content registration with Crossref are most useful for content that is likely to be cited in the scholarly ecosystem.

Yes, while DOIs help track and facilitate citation, they’re not a hard requirement for citation. Anything can be cited!

Can I obtain a DOI for my research papers written before 2010? They do not have an electronic version, only a paper version

You’ll need to reach out to the publishers of those papers. If they’re Crossref members, or if they work with a different DOI Registration Agency, they could register those papers, regardless of when they were published.

Alternatively, there are some institutional repositories or other repositories (for example Zenodo, ResearchGate, etc.) that will register a DOI for a manuscript version of a paper that’s posted to their repository.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Best,
Shayn

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I got it. I’ll discuss it with my professor.

It’s a good thing.

This may be more difficult to deal with, as it was published in Donetsk, which is now not controlled by Ukraine. But I will ask my professor.

Thank you very much.

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