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Visit their old demo pages from early on (5 years into their existence though, after they had time to work out the kinks) where they had examples of DOI links t

by natch 5y ago

Visit their old demo pages from early on (5 years into their existence though, after they had time to work out the kinks) where they had examples of DOI links that supposedly will never break: https://web.archive.org/web/20050305141724/http://www.doi.org/demos.html https://web.archive.org/web/20050305141724/http://www.doi.or... Don’t just follow the links as they are on archive.org, because that wraps the links and you get an almost comical series of ultimately unsuccessful redirects (unlike many redirects on archive.org which often ARE successful when not using DOI links). No, try the DOI links themselves by copy pasting them without the archive.org wrapper. I think you’ll find many of them (most of them?) are not working. This version of the page is from after “the handle system” had been up and rolling for a few years. To be fair, maybe some browser plug-in is needed? Notice also how thickly the web site is festooned with copyright, trademark, and registered trademark notices and the like. Feels off to me.

eesmith 5y ago
> examples of DOI links that supposedly will never break I looked in the FAQ and related materials from that 2005 mirror, and didn't see where they said the links would never break. Did they promise to archive every resolvable DOI in case a registration agency should go out of business or stop being a registration agency? FWIW, here's what I found: doi:10.1038/35057062 - works doi:10.1002/0470841559.ch1 - works doi:10.1228/0103000001002 - does not work. Neither DDG nor Google Scholar know of the whitepaper "Secure Internet Delivery of High Value Content". The source organization, "Lon Inc." does not seem to exist, or at least, http://loninc.com/ http://loninc.com/ does not resolve. doi:10.1228/0103000001009 - does not resolve. Also from "Lon Inc." doi:10.1430/8105 - resolves to https://www.medra.org/servlet/MREngine?hdl=10.1430/8105 https://www.medra.org/servlet/MREngine?hdl=10.1430/8105 resolving in turn to https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1430/8105 https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1430/8105 . doi:10.1392/BC1.0 - works doi:10.1786/SIBQK6AD8RNA - does not work. The corresponding document appears to be https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/4/section/4 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/4/section/4 , with no associated doi. The other four DOIs from The Stationery Office UK Official Publications Catalog also do not resolve. While I can find the press release notice when TSO applied DOIs to UKOP (at http://www.doi.org/news/TSO-UKOPPressRelease.pdf http://www.doi.org/news/TSO-UKOPPressRelease.pdf ), I cannot find why they decided to no longer use or support DOIs. It looks like one registration agency went out of business and another stopped supporting DOIs. What should DOI have done to improve things to your satisfaction? Sci-Hub works well with DOIs, and without festooned notices and the like. ;)

by natch 5y ago

eesmith 5y ago

> examples of DOI links that supposedly will never break I looked in the FAQ and related materials from that 2005 mirror, and didn't see where they said the links would never break. Did they promise to archive every resolvable DOI in case a registration agency should go out of business or stop being a registration agency? FWIW, here's what I found: doi:10.1038/35057062 - works doi:10.1002/0470841559.ch1 - works doi:10.1228/0103000001002 - does not work. Neither DDG nor Google Scholar know of the whitepaper "Secure Internet Delivery of High Value Content". The source organization, "Lon Inc." does not seem to exist, or at least, http://loninc.com/ http://loninc.com/ does not resolve. doi:10.1228/0103000001009 - does not resolve. Also from "Lon Inc." doi:10.1430/8105 - resolves to https://www.medra.org/servlet/MREngine?hdl=10.1430/8105 https://www.medra.org/servlet/MREngine?hdl=10.1430/8105 resolving in turn to https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1430/8105 https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1430/8105 . doi:10.1392/BC1.0 - works doi:10.1786/SIBQK6AD8RNA - does not work. The corresponding document appears to be https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/4/section/4 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/4/section/4 , with no associated doi. The other four DOIs from The Stationery Office UK Official Publications Catalog also do not resolve. While I can find the press release notice when TSO applied DOIs to UKOP (at http://www.doi.org/news/TSO-UKOPPressRelease.pdf http://www.doi.org/news/TSO-UKOPPressRelease.pdf ), I cannot find why they decided to no longer use or support DOIs. It looks like one registration agency went out of business and another stopped supporting DOIs. What should DOI have done to improve things to your satisfaction? Sci-Hub works well with DOIs, and without festooned notices and the like. ;)