DOE OSTI provides the Award DOI Service for DOE funding offices, national laboratories, and user facilities to assign DOIs to awards, contracts, equipment, facilities, grants, prizes, salary awards, time awarded, and training grants.

• This service was developed with community input and offered to provide a mechanism for persistent and global identification of DOE awards.
• It provides a way for researchers to better acknowledge/reference support and for awarding organizations to receive improved attribution.
• Award DOIs allow for stronger connections to be made between the award and the research outputs stemming from the award, including publications, reports, data, and software.

OSTI works with organizations interested in the service to understand use cases, set up accounts, test submissions, and begin assigning award DOIs. For more information about the Award DOI Service, interested organizations can contact AwardDOIService@osti.gov.

The DOIs assigned to awards are registered with Crossref. OSTI became a member of Crossref in 2005 to assign DOIs to DOE-funded technical reports. Crossref is a not-for-profit membership organization that works to make research outputs easy to find, cite, link, access, and reuse. Crossref provides DOI services as a registration agency of the DOI Foundation. In 2019, Crossref began offering a service assigning DOIs to awards. The Crossref service provides a metadata schema specifically tailored to capture information relevant to awards.