[Taxacom] Demise of Phyloinformatics journal

[Mike Dallwitz]

Roderic Page wrote:

> This also illustrates the problems with linking to digital resources 
> using URLs, as opposed to identifiers such as DOIs.

There can be problems with DOIs, too. My only attempt to use one wasn't 
encouraging. I was sent a reference, including a DOI, to add to the list on 
the DELTA Web site. The DOI was apparently wrong, and I couldn't get it 
fixed; in the end, I thought it best to omit it. Here's a precis of my 
correspondence on the matter.

________________________________________
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005
From: Mike Dallwitz
To:  help at ingentaconnect.com

In the article
     Revets, S. A. 2005. A key to the unilocular hyaline Foraminifera.
     Journal of Micropalaeontology, 24(2): 145-158. DOI:
     10.1144/0262-821X04-001
at
     http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/geol/jm/2005/00000024/00000002/
         art00004
the DOI seems to be incorrect. When I submit it to http://www.doi.org/, I
get the message
     The DOI 10.1144/0262-821X04-001 cannot be found in the Handle System.

________________________________________
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005
From: "xxx" <xxx at ingenta.com>
To: Mike Dallwitz

Dear Mike,

Thanks for reporting the problem with this issue. I have reported this to 
the team which deals with the data so that they can obtain replacement data 
for the issue from the publisher. Apologies for the inconvenience. We should 
have this fixed soon.

Regards,

xxx
Library Support Specialist
Ingenta plc

________________________________________
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006
From: Mike Dallwitz
To:  doi-help at doi.org

[I supplied the requested information, as above.]

________________________________________
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006
From: yyy <yyy at cnri.reston.va.us>
To: Mike Dallwitz
Cc: zzz at crossref.org

Thank you for reporting this error. It has been forwarded to the appropriate 
DOI registrant contact for action. Note that if the item the DOI identifies 
is new, the DOI may have been unintentionally made public before being 
registered with the DOI system and may be available later.

Thanks again --
yyy
CNRI

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Mike Dallwitz
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