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DOI

Capability Support
rclone support tier Tier 2: Stable
Checksums None
Modification times Not kept: files show their upload time
Case-insensitive names No
Duplicate names allowed No
Server-side copy No
Server-side move and rename No
Folder move and rename No: each file is moved in turn
Free space reporting No
Empty folders No: folders exist only while they hold files
Change notifications No
Uploads of unknown size No
Public links No

The DOI remote is a read only remote for reading files from digital object identifiers (DOI).

Currently, the DOI backend supports DOIs hosted with:

The wizard asks for these when you add the drive.

The DOI or the doi.org URL.

Type: string · Required

The wizard shows these under Advanced options. Most drives work without changing any of them.

DOI provider.

The DOI provider can be set when rclone does not automatically recognize a supported DOI provider.

Type: string

Choices:

  • auto: Auto-detect provider
  • zenodo: Zenodo
  • dataverse: Dataverse
  • invenio: Invenio

The URL of the DOI resolver API to use.

The DOI resolver can be set for testing or for cases when the canonical DOI resolver API cannot be used.

Defaults to “https://doi.org/api”.

Type: string

Description of the remote.

Type: string