[Taxacom] Demise of Phyloinformatics journal

[Roderic Page]

I've sometimes had problems with DOIs as well (noticeably those  
issued by BioOne), which illustrates the point that the stability of  
any identifier (such as a DOs, LSID, persistent URL, etc.) is  
ultimately a social issue, not a technological one.

Regards

Rod



On 25 Nov 2006, at 05:30, Mike Dallwitz wrote:

> 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
>
> ________________________________________
>
> -- 
> Mike Dallwitz
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