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Eating My Own Dog Food

After my post about DOI numbers, I realized, to my chagrin, that the online version of the journal that I edit, has no explicit representation of DOI numbers. They occur as part of the URL query string, but in order to extract this information, you have to:

  • Know what a URL query string is
  • Know the syntax of DOI numbers

It would be better if this were explicitly represented. (At least you can downlaod citations in BibTeX.) I will be contacting Blackwells about this.

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  1. […] are forever. However, access to DOI numbers is not always transparently displayed by publishers. (I eat my own dog food—mmm, dog food—Aristotelian Society publications now display DOI numbers discretely in a […]

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