DOIs unambiguously and persistently identify published, trustworthy, citable...
The South Park movie , “Bigger, Longer & Uncut” has a DOI: a) http://dx.doi.org/10.5240/B1FA-0EEC-C316-3316-3A73-L So does the pornographic movie, “Young Sex Crazed Nurses”: b)...
View ArticleProblems with dx.doi.org on January 20th 2015- what we know.
Hell’s teeth. So today (January 20th, 2015) the DOI HTTP resolver at dx.doi.org started to fail intermittently around the world. The doi.org domain is managed by CNRI on behalf of the International DOI...
View ArticleJanuary 2015 DOI Outage: Followup Report
Background On January 20th, 2015 the main DOI HTTP proxy at doi.org experienced a partial, rolling global outage. The system was never completely down, but for at least part of the subsequent 48 hours,...
View ArticleRehashing PIDs without stabbing myself in the eyeball
Anybody who knows me or reads this blog is probably aware that I don’t exactly hold back when discussing problems with the DOI system. But just occasionally I find myself actually defending the thing…...
View ArticleThe logo has landed
The rebranding of Crossref was top priority when I joined in May in a new role called “Director of Member & Community Outreach”. Since then I’ve been working to understand the array of services,...
View ArticleCrossref & the Art of Cartography: an Open Map for Scholarly Communications
In the 2015 Crossref Annual Meeting, I introduced a metaphor for the work that we do at Crossref. I re-present it here for broader discussion as this narrative continues to play a guiding role in the...
View ArticleGetting Started with Crossref DOIs, courtesy of Scholastica
I had a great chat with Danielle Padula of Scholastica, a journals platform with an integrated peer-review process that was founded in 2011. We talked about how journals get started with Crossref, and...
View ArticleThe article nexus: linking publications to associated research outputs
Crossref began its service by linking publications to other publications via references. Today, this extends to relationships with associated entities. People (authors, reviewers, editors, other...
View ArticlePreprints are go at Crossref!
We’re excited to say that we’ve finished the work on our infrastructure to allow members to register preprints. Want to know why we’re doing this? Jennifer Lin explains the rationale in detail in an...
View ArticleURLs and DOIs: a complicated relationship
As the linking hub for scholarly content, it’s our job to tame URLs and put in their place something better. Why? Most URLs suffer from link rot and can be created, deleted or changed at any time. And...
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