Monday November 17, 2025: The Rosenblum Award for Scholarly Publishing Impact has released a new video celebrating its inaugural honoree: the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for scholarly publishing.
The short documentary film “Rosenblum Award for Scholarly Publishing 2025: The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for Scholarly Publishing—Community Perspectives” brings together leading voices from across the global research and publishing ecosystem to reflect on the DOI’s enduring legacy and the collaborative spirit that continues to drive scholarly communication forward.
A community built on shared infrastructure
Contributors to the video include many of the most influential figures in the digital landscape and scholarly infrastructure, publishing, and technology. They collectively offer a rare, multi-perspective reflection on how the DOI for Scholarly Publishing has transformed—and is expected to continue supporting—research connectivity and reliability worldwide.
Those interviewed represent just a fraction of the people involved who have made and continue to make the DOI for Scholarly Publishing possible. The Rosenblum Award for Scholarly Publishing Impact would like to thank all those people for their incredible contributions from conception to where we are now, and where the future will take us.
Featured contributors, in order of appearance, include:
- Robert Kahn, President & CEO, Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI)
- Larry Lannom, Director of Information Management Technology, CNRI
- Carol Risher, Operations Director, Rushing McCarl LLP; formerly VP Copyright & Technology, Association of American Publishers
- Eefke Smit, Managing Director, IPRO
- Paul Mostert, Director, Product Management, Content, Elsevier (retired)
- Howard Ratner, Executive Director, CHORUS
- Ed Pentz, Executive Director, Crossref
- Alice Meadows, Co-founder, MoreBrains Cooperative
- Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO
- Jan Brase, Head of R&D, SUB Göttingen
- Hylke Koers, CIO, STM Solutions
- Jonathan Clark, Managing Agent, The DOI Foundation
- Matt Buys, Executive Director, DataCite
- Charles Watkinson, Director, University of Michigan Press
- Jennifer Kemp, Director, Consulting Services, Strategies for Open Science (Stratos)
Together, they offer a compelling, multifaceted look at the DOI’s history and role in connecting research, enabling innovation, and sustaining a global ecosystem of trust, transparency, and collaboration.
The DOI for Scholarly Publishing: connecting research and people
The Rosenblum Award video traces the DOI for Scholarly Publishing’s journey from a technical solution to a universal language of research connection. It shows how the DOI for Scholarly Publishing:
- supports all worldwide in discovering research more efficiently and effectively
- links millions of research outputs across disciplines, publishers, and nations
- supports open, transparent communication, helping research remain discoverable and citable for the long term
- builds trust and accountability through persistent identification and shared metadata
- fosters collaboration among publishers, societies, libraries, funders, and technology partners to ensure research remains accessible and interoperable
- uses and applications continue and will grow across the community in the years to come.
Honoring Bruce Rosenblum’s legacy
Established collaboratively by five leading scholarly publishing organizations in memory of Bruce Rosenblum, a pioneer in publishing standards and workflow innovation, The Rosenblum Award for Scholarly Publishing celebrates transformative infrastructure and initiatives that underpin global scholarly communication.
The Governance Committee, consisting of leadership of ALPSP, AUPresses, NISO, SSP, and STM, unanimously selected the DOI for Scholarly Publishing as the inaugural recipient, recognizing its profound, sustained impact on how research is shared and connected across borders and generations.
The Rosenblum Award for Scholarly Publishing reflects a broad, community-led commitment to shared, non-proprietary infrastructure that benefits all those involved in the creation, dissemination, and use of scholarship.
Discover and share
Viewers are encouraged to watch, share, and use the video as a resource in presentations, teaching, training, and community discussions about the importance of persistent identifiers and collaborative infrastructure in scholarly communication.