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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