[Irtalk] Now I am become DOI, destroyer of gatekeeping worlds

[Hilton Gibson]

Digital object identifiers (DOIs) are much sought-after commodities in the
world of academic publishing. If you’ve never seen one, a DOI is a unique
string associated with a particular digital object (most commonly a
publication of some kind) that lets the internet know where to find the
stuff you’ve written.

For example, say you want to know where you can get a hold of an article
titled, oh, say, Designing next-generation platforms for evaluating
scientific output: what scientists can learn from the social web. In the
real world, you’d probably go to Google, type that title in, and within
three or four clicks, you’d arrive at the document you’re looking for. As
it turns out, the world of formal resource location is fairly similar to
the real world, except that instead of using Google, you go to a website
called dx.DOI.org, and then you plug in the string
’10.3389/fncom.2012.00072′, which is the DOI associated with the
aforementioned article. And then, poof, you’re automagically linked
directly to the original document, upon which you can gaze in great awe for
as long as you feel comfortable.

https://thewinnower.com/papers/now-i-am-become-doi-destroyer-of-gatekeeping-worlds

*​Also see:
http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Digital_Object_Identifier
<http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Digital_Object_Identifier>​*
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