The Journal of Caribbean Ornithology (JCO), BirdsCaribbean’s peer reviewed scientific journal, is committed to increasing the visibility of its publications to researchers, conservationists, and other interested users. To further this goal, JCO has recently enrolled in Crossref, a non-profit registration agency that issues Digital Object Identifiers, DOIs for short. A unique DOI will be applied to each article published in JCO, which will facilitate its identification and discovery while searching the internet.
Dr. Stefan Gleissberg, JCO’s Managing Editor who oversees the implementation, is excited about how this will impact the journal and its Caribbean community:
“This is an important step for our efforts at the JCO to increase visibility and raise the profile of our journal in the academic community. DOIs make it easier for readers, researchers, reviewers, and funding agencies to find JCO publications because of the permanent weblink these identifiers create. It will boost the impact of our authors’ research and help them better connect with the important work of other researchers.”
JCO has begun implementing these DOIs into its 35th volume that has just been launched, and over time will retroactively assign these identifiers to back volumes and articles as well. Other BirdsCaribbean publications and reports can also be issued DOIs.
The JCO editorial team will be hosting a roundtable at the AOS/BC 2022 conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico this summer, to discuss this and other recent developments at the journal. This will be a great opportunity to receive input from the ornithological community, so we hope you can join us!
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