pub-id-type

Type of Publication Identifier

Type of publication identifier or the organization or system that defined the identifier.

Usage

This attribute is used in several contexts:

Attribute Values

In Elements

<article-id>, <issue-id>, <object-id>, <pub-id>, <volume-id>
ValueMeaning
Text, numbers, or special charactersThe type of identifier “doi” or name or type of organization that created the identifier, such as “aggregator”.
Restriction: This is an optional attribute; there is no default.

Suggested usage

Best Practice: The type of identifier should be named for established types (DOIs, SICIs, Codens). If the identifier is not of an established type, name the assigning agency (PMC, OCLC) or type of assigning agency (aggregator, archive, indexing service, publisher) which assigned the identifier. Potential values include:

aggregator

Identifier assigned by a data aggregator (generally used with elements <object-id>, <issue-id>, and <volume-id>)

archive

Identifier assigned by an archive or other repository (generally used with elements <object-id>, <issue-id>, and <volume-id>)

art-access-id

Generic article accession identifier for interchange and retrieval between archives

arxiv

arXiv archive of electronic preprints

coden

Obsolete PDB/CCDC identifier (may be present on older articles)

doaj

Directory of Open Access Journals

doi

Digital Object Identifier

index

Identifier assigned by an abstracting or indexing service (generally used with elements <object-id>, <issue-id>, and <volume-id>)

isbn

International Standard Book Number

manuscript

Identifier assigned to a manuscript

medline

NLM Medline identifier

pii

The original “Publisher Item Identifier” (PII) was a plan to provide unique and concise identification of individual published documents with a highly specified string. The PII is no longer in common use (2010).

A more generic “pii” defined as “publisher’s internal identifier” is used by some archives, for example, PubMed Central, to mark “any internal reference identifier that has been assigned by the publisher”.

pmcid

PubMed Central identifier

pmid

PubMed ID; see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed

publisher-id

Publisher’s identifier, such as an “article-id”, “artnum”, “identifier”, “article-number”, “pub-id”, etc.

sici

Serial Item and Contribution Identifier (An ANSI/NISO Z39.56 code to uniquely identify volumes, articles, or other parts of a periodical. A journal article may have more than one SICI, for example, one for a print version and another for an electronic version.)

std-designation

The official number of a standard, from a standards body such as ISO, NISO, IEEE, ASME, et al., for example, “Z39.96-2012”.