Perhaps don't bother to read on if you never use DOI.
Sorry Paulo, I can't see how my two gripes relate to open access - which is great. It needs funding from somewhere of course, but it's great to see it being done by Scielo
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DOI save time - when they work. And if you use automatic download of citations to a bibliography program that's where you need to go, even if you have the pdf sent to you. Perhaps there are people reading this who have not realised that DOI have to be registered with the redirecting agency before they actually will do anything, and that publishers can be careless about doing so. Process failures with DOI occur in the mega publishers too, but it is very simple to check a DOI actually works before telling the world about it. Better one unhappy person finds out first than hundreds later. In this case I was the one. Additionally I could not copy the DOI direct from the pdf to use/test it because the pdf text was uncopyable. Also one of the drawbacks with the DOI system is that it doesn't default to anywhere useful when a number fails - you're still at square one. You would think it couldn't be too hard to produce a link to the publisher site with the error message, or that you could use the first part of the DOI yourself to go there - but no.
Kristian, nice that you get alerts direct from the journal. Lovely for you.
Cheers,
Geoff
>>> On 17/12/2010 at 12:42 a.m., Paulo Lana <lana from ufpr.br> wrote:
> Dear Geoff and colleagues, [...]
. My point is - better to have a somewhat faulty DOI (most
> probably
> a temporary problem) and irritating securitiy issues for free
> scientific information than to pay up to US $50.00 to download a paper.
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