Frequently asked questions

ORI — Oxton Research Identifier — is a persistent institutional identifier for scholarly publications, maintained by Oxton Education. Each registered article receives a code such as ORI-7K4M9Q2XT8RB and a public page with its metadata, history and, when the journal deposits it, the full text.

No. ORI is an institutional identifier of Oxton. It is not a DOI, not a Crossref registration and not an internationally accredited identifier. The participating journals of Oxton identify their articles by ORI.

Oxton Education operates the registry at oriregistry.org. Identifiers are issued only by the central registry, never by journal websites. See About ORI.

An issued identifier is never deleted, edited or reused. It always resolves to its record page, even if the journal changes its website or the article is withdrawn or retracted.

ORI:10001/2026.0001: the code of the institution responsible for the journal, the year and the number of the record in that institution and year. It opens at https://oriregistry.org/10001/2026.0001. Identifiers issued earlier, such as ORI-7K4M9Q2XT8RB, remain valid.

Use Search records and search by title, author, keyword, ORI identifier, ORCID iD or journal, or open https://oriregistry.org/10001/2026.0001 directly.

Every record page has ready-made citations in ABNT, APA, Vancouver and BibTeX and exports in BibTeX, RIS and JSON. Use the permanent address https://oriregistry.org/10001/2026.0001 as the link.

When the journal deposits the article in the ORI repository, the record page offers the PDF. Access follows the article license and any embargo set by the journal; the record page also links to the article on the journal website.

Check the institution code, the year and the number (ORI:10001/2026.0001). Identifiers reserved for articles that are not yet published are not public either.

Corrections create a new version of the record, and every version stays in its history. A withdrawn or retracted article keeps its identifier and its page, with a clear notice and the reason given by the journal, so citations keep working. See Retractions and corrections.

Ask the journal that published the article to correct it. The journal updates the record; ORI keeps the previous version in the history and the identifier does not change.

Yes. Metadata is open: download it from the record page, read it through the public API or harvest it by OAI-PMH. The license of each article is the one stated by its journal.

Participating journals of editorial organizations approved by ORI. Each journal belongs to an organization, whose institutional administrator manages its members and credentials.

The publisher applies on Request membership. After approval, its institutional administrator registers the journal, invites the editorial team and issues a credential for the journal website.

In three ways: in the ORI dashboard; automatically with the ORI Connector, which sends each article when it is published and shows the identifier on the article page — for WordPress journals (WordPress guide) and for OJS (OJS guide), downloaded free of charge in the dashboard; or through the API (API documentation).

That the request comes from the journal (credential or authorized member); that the required metadata is valid; that the publication is not already registered (same DOI, same article address, or same title in the same journal and year); and that the publication page is online. Journals may also choose to have every request approved by a reviewer.

Yes. A reserved identifier is not public and does not resolve. It becomes public when the article is published and its page is confirmed online — and it never changes.

No. Metadata can be updated, always with version history, but the identifier itself is permanent. Only drafts without an identifier can be discarded.

Files deposited in the ORI repository are stored outside the public web folder with a SHA-256 checksum and a second copy. ORI checks them on a regular schedule and repairs damaged copies from the replica. Each record can be exported as a BagIt preservation package.

Yes, a REST API under /wp-json/ori/v1/: public read endpoints (records, search, journals, resolution) and authenticated write endpoints for journal integrations, with idempotent registration requests. See API documentation.

Yes, by OAI-PMH 2.0 at https://oriregistry.org/oai, in Dublin Core (oai_dc), with sets by journal and by publication type and resumption tokens for large lists.

JSON (record page and API), BibTeX, RIS, Dublin Core by OAI-PMH, citation meta tags for indexers and schema.org JSON-LD on every record page.

ORI stores author names, ORCID iDs and affiliations as published by the journal and never stores author email addresses. Every change is recorded in a tamper-evident audit log. See Privacy policy.

The System status page runs live checks of the registry, the search index, the API, OAI-PMH and file integrity, and lists incidents and maintenance.