What is a database accession number?

info This is a space for the teal alert bar. notifications This is a space for the yellow alert bar. Browse: An accession number (sometimes called a document ID) is a unique number assigned to an article within a specific database. It helps identify and locate that article in that database. For more information about DOI numbers, please refer to this FAQ. If a database uses accession numbers (such as EBSCOhost), you can find it: Yes—if you know both the number and the database it came from. For.