About ARK for My Journal's article

[Tanmoy Kundu]

Hello Everyone

Hope this message finds you well. I am the editor of a journal and I have been informed about DOI by one of my friends and then I visited their website but hey are demanding money like 275 dollars. Then I came to know about ARK by which is like DOI for which I applied and have been assigned 5 digit number by NAAN. Now would anyone pls let me know how to assign ARk for eacha nd every articles of my journal?. 

[Elizabeth McAulay]

Hello,

Congratulations about getting your NAAN and getting into the ARK world. There are probably others much more knowledgeable than me, but I think what you need is to 1) mint ARKs and 2) assign ARKs to your articles. You'll probably want to develop a retrospective workflow to address all your existing articles and a prospective workflow for the future. Apologies if I am stating the obvious.

I found this FAQ useful: https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/ARKs/ARK+Identifiers+FAQ#ARKIdentifiersFAQ-localglobalWhatdoIneedtocreateARKs?. And it led me to this page about how to mint ARKs using NOID: http://n2t.net/e/noid.html. 

At my organization (UCLA Library) we use both the EZID service and we run our own minter (which is a Java application and very old, I think!) The EZID service is something we have access to as a member of the University of California. However, I see it does cost money for other organizations. See more here: https://ezid.cdlib.org/learn/.  

I hope that's helpful in getting started.

Best regards,

Elizabeth McAulay