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EDITORIAL THE CROSSREF AGENCY HAS ASSIGNED DOI (DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER) TO THE LAW AND MODERN STATES JOURNAL DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14420/en.2013.4.1 web-site: http://bar-association.ru/
The development of social relations and information technologies has considerably changed the forms of a person’s scientific activities. Digital technologies have introduced many novelties without which it is impossible to imagine contemporary life. Those changes did not pass around science, publications and publishing houses as a whole. Today hardly anybody is ignorant of such products as Web of Science, or Scopus, which represent databases of scientific publications and, which is no less important, citation bases of scholars and researchers. As a result of these systems, conditionally speaking, the work of scholars all over the world become accessible, and the citation system makes it possible to easily reference other authors. The other, no less important and significant, tool, is the system of providing scholarly works with updated and permanent references. In reality an article published on the internet often does not have a particular reference that distinguishes it from a paper source. If an article is removed or transferred to somewhere else, it is difficult to find a reference to it, and that leads to the emergence of plagiarism and unconscientiously matching content. This is why many authors today distrust the internet as a publishing source for their works. This problem has been solved within the operation framework of the DOI system (technical details are available by following the link: www.doi.org). DOI (Digital Object Identifier) is a special object identifier and, in this case, the identifier of a scholarly article. In point of fact, it’s the same as a URL address. But a DOI is unique in that it is permanent and unchanging. Having received a DOI for their article, an author in the future can always use that address to gain access to their article.