Title already has a handle, can I assign a DOI as well?

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Hello,

A title published by our university press is shared via Open Access at the author’s home institution. They have assigned the title a handle.
Our university press would like to host a copy of the open access title on our campus digital repository and they have requested that we assign a DOI.
I’m wondering about how to deal with this request. Since the title already has a handle, would it be duplicative to mint a DOI? It is the same epub file for both BUT they would resolve to different repositories.
Any advice on how to proceed would be appreciated.
Thank you.
Francesca

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Hi Francesca,

Thanks for your question.

Yes, that should be fine. It’s alright for the same item to have a Handle identifier and a DOI.

It’s a fairly common scenario for a publisher to register a DOI for an article in their journal, and for an author’s home institution to host an author accepted manuscript version of that same article in their repository with a Handle registered.

Please let me know if you have any other questions.

-Shayn

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