diff --git a/src/components/Tabs/IdentificationTab.jsx b/src/components/Tabs/IdentificationTab.jsx
index a9d29820..c2c5fe7f 100644
--- a/src/components/Tabs/IdentificationTab.jsx
+++ b/src/components/Tabs/IdentificationTab.jsx
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ const IdentificationTab = ({
 
   async function handleUpdateDraftDOI() {
     setLoadingDoiUpdate(true);
-  
+
     try {
       const mappedDataCiteObject = recordToDataCite(record, language, region);
       delete mappedDataCiteObject.data.type;
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ const IdentificationTab = ({
 
       const response = await updateDraftDoi( dataObject );
       const statusCode = response.data.status;
-  
+
       if (statusCode === 200) {
         setDoiUpdateFlag(true);
       } else {
@@ -701,7 +701,7 @@ const IdentificationTab = ({
             <En>What is the DOI for this dataset? Eg,</En>
             <Fr>Quel est le DOI de ce jeu de données ? Par exemple,</Fr>
           </I18n>{" "}
-          10.0000/0000
+          https://doi.org/10.0000/0000
           {showGenerateDoi && (
             <SupplementalText>
               <I18n>
@@ -738,8 +738,8 @@ const IdentificationTab = ({
           </Button>
         )}
         {showUpdateDoi && (
-          <Button 
-            onClick={handleUpdateDraftDOI} 
+          <Button
+            onClick={handleUpdateDraftDOI}
             style={{ display: 'inline' }}
           >
             <div style={{ display: "flex", alignItems: "center" }}>
@@ -755,8 +755,8 @@ const IdentificationTab = ({
           </Button>
         )}
       {showDeleteDoi && (
-        <Button 
-          onClick={handleDeleteDOI} 
+        <Button
+          onClick={handleDeleteDOI}
           style={{ display: "inline" }}
         >
           <div style={{ display: "flex", alignItems: "center" }}>
diff --git a/src/utils/validate.js b/src/utils/validate.js
index 759a2f32..b5124564 100644
--- a/src/utils/validate.js
+++ b/src/utils/validate.js
@@ -4,7 +4,18 @@ export const validateEmail = (email) => !email || validator.isEmail(email);
 export const validateURL = (url) => !url || validator.isURL(url);
 
 // See https://stackoverflow.com/a/48524047/7416701
-export const doiRegexp = /^10.\d{4,9}\/[-._;()/:A-Z0-9]+$/i;
+export const doiRegexp = /^(https:\/\/doi.org\/)?10\.\d{4,9}\/[-._;()/:A-Z0-9]+$/i;
+function isValidHttpUrl(string) {
+  let url;
+
+  try {
+    url = new URL(string);
+  } catch (_) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  return url.protocol === "http:" || url.protocol === "https:";
+}
 
 const validateLatitude = (num) => num >= -90 && num <= 90;
 
@@ -70,7 +81,7 @@ const validators = {
     },
   },
   datasetIdentifier: {
-    validation: (val) => !val || doiRegexp.test(val),
+    validation: (val) => !val || (doiRegexp.test(val) && isValidHttpUrl(val)),
     optional: true,
     tab: "dataID",
     error: {