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This 70-page report, published by the Consortium of European Research Libraries and the European Commission on Preservation and Access, describes a number of persistent identifier schemes in detail, including Handles, Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), Archival Resource Keys (ARKs), Persistent Uniform Resource Locators (PURLs), Uniform Resource Names (URNs), National Bibliography Numbers (NBNs), and the OpenURL. Its final chapter contains a set of guidelines and recommendations.