[Taxacom] In defense of DOIs

[Geoff Read]

Hi Stephen,

>>> On 18/02/2010 at 9:12 a.m., Stephen Thorpe <s.thorpe at auckland.ac.nz>
wrote:
" So, why are some publishers systematically listing broken
(unregistered?)  DOIs for older articles? This is a real nuisance. For
example, Wiley 
(http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122242044/tocgroup ) lists
DOIs for all articles in Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of
London  (B), now Systematic Entomology, but ALL these links to the older
title are  broken (unregistered?) as far as I can see... "


Yes,  & importantly, working the reverse way at CrossRef via a citation
doesn't give a DOI either (for the couple I tried).
I guess the articles aren't registered by the publisher at the moment.
Certainly we shouldn't be able to see dummy DOIs. Bad look.
You can complain here, and the publisher will be queried:

http://www.crossref.org/DOIComplaint/

Let us know how it turns out.

Geoff