CrossRef DOI submission problem

Software Support
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We have recently installed OJS 3.5.0.5, and I have problems with the functionality in the Crossref Manager Plugin. The problems are not new, but I need them fixed more urgently as I need to resubmit a large number of DOIs to have affiliations and RoRs included (this works in the current version!).

When I use the Bulk Action to change the status for DOI from Registered to Needs Sync for more than 1 article, this works.

But when I then tick off e.g. 3 articles needing sync and use the Bulk Action to Deposit DOIs, only 1 of them appears in the file that CrossRef say they have received. But the status in OJS is changed to “Registered” even if only 1 of the 3 is actually updated.

a) I get a false update status

b) It seems I need to submit each journal individually, which will be quite some work with 700 current records with CrossRef.

What should I have done differently - what can you do with the Plug-in?

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Under b) for “journal” please read “DOI”

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@bozana - might you be able to speak to this?

-Roger

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This issue is caused by a known bug in the OJS web interface’s batch processing in recent versions.

To process your 700 records with the new affiliations and ROR IDs without having to do so manually one by one, there are two effective alternatives:

  1. Bulk deposit via CLI (SSH command line)
  2. XML export and manual upload to the Crossref Portal

antonyagguzman@gmail.com

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Thanks! - this solved my problem! A bit time-consuming, but it beats doing it DOI by DOI

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Hi @Antony_Guzman,

Can you elaborate on which bug you’re referring to (perhaps provide direct link to Github issue)?

-Roger

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Hi all, hmmmm… I have just tested this locally and I could deposit all selected (in my case 3) DOIs successfully. So, it would be great if some of you could investigate where is the problem. I also do not understand why this would happen: For the selected submissions, jobs will be dispatched, one job per submission. Thus the submissions one by one are registered and their DOI status updated.
How are your jobs run? When you select several submission DOIs do you see those jobs dispatched and then run successfully (not ending in the failed_jobs table)?
Any further information would be helpful.
Best,
Bozana

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Bozana, I don’t have the tools or competence to follow the jobs in OJS. All I see is that when I tick off a number (>1) of items I want to send CrossRef data about and then use the Bulk Action “Deposit DOIs” option, the file I find CrossRef has processed only contains one of the items (I believe the first, but haven’t really checked that).

When I use the Export DOIs option, I get an XML file with all the items included, and when sending it manually to CrossRef all items are updated.