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Identifying Digital Gems

Posted on July 07, 2008

Sciencebase readers will likely be aware that when I cite a research paper, I usually use the DOI system, the Digital Object Identifier. This acts like a redirect service taking a unique number, which might look like this assigned to each research paper by its publisher and passing it to a server that works out where the actual paper is on the web.The DOI system has several handlers, and indeed, that s one of its strength: it is distributed. So, as long as you have the DOI, you can use any of the handlers (dx.doi.org, http://hdl.handle.net, http://hdl.nature.com/ etc) to look up a paper of ...

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