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Questions in relation to doi (digital object identifier).

From Wikipedia

A digital object identifier (DOI) is a character string (a "digital identifier") used to uniquely identify an object such as an electronic document. Metadata about the object is stored in association with the DOI name and this metadata may include a location, such as a URL, where the object can be found. The DOI for a document remains fixed over the lifetime of the document, whereas its location and other metadata may change. Referring to an online document by its DOI provides more stable linking than simply referring to it by its URL, because if its URL changes, the publisher need only update the metadata for the DOI to link to the new URL

If you have the DOI code of a paper, in Linux environment, you can retrieve its BibTeX through the API with this command: curl -LH "Accept: text/bibliography; style=bibtex" http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/pr100594k.

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Given a DOI, how can I programmatically obtain all the relevant dates from a paper?

I have to collect the relevant dates (date submited, revised, accepted, published) from a large amount of papers. I would like to do this using R but I could adapt to any other suggested method. Many thanks in advance.
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Where can I report incorrect metadata obtained using DOI lookup?

Many entries in the DOI catalogue contain incorrect information. Is there any central way to report such entries (to the DOI team or the publisher*)? Example: When importing a work into a reference management software by its DOI this results…
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Are there free DOI generation services?

Crossref, e.g., charges thousands of dollars to assign DOIs, but are there any free DOI registration services? In other words: Is there a free service that will generate DOIs for me?
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How can I create a DOI for a paper that was uploaded to arXiv but not published somewhere else?

I wonder whether there is any way to create a DOI for a paper that was uploaded to arXiv but not published somewhere else, and have the DOI points to the arXiv URL (e.g., not pointing to some researchgate page). While there are reasons that arXiv…
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Persistent website with a DOI

I'm writing a paper that contains links to documentation that lives as a collection of web pages. I'm looking to host these webpages somewhere such that I can create a direct link to a page from my paper, and such that the website is persistent.…
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How to get a DOI for research report published by nonprofit

I'm an alt-ac researcher, currently working in the research department of a large national nonprofit. We regularly produce research reports and briefs that are published on the organization's website (in addition to publishing manuscripts in…
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How does CiteSeerX's DOI parameter work?

For example, the DOI of "Disclosive ethics and information technology: disclosing facial recognition systems" is 10.1007/s10676-005-4583-2 but the parameter needed to reach the paper on CiteSeerX is 10.1.1.153.9046 as in…
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Published article with Inactive DOI

I submitted a paper to SciTechnol, I paid the article processing charges. The paper is now published on their website with a DOI which is inactive when checking on Crossref metadata and DOI.org I contacted Crossref why is that, they replied that…
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Can I map ISO standards to DOIs?

DOIs are specified in ISO 26324, but can I refer to that standard by DOI? In other words, is there a systematic mapping from ISO standard numbers (possibly including parts and release years) to DOI names? Ideally, this would work in a similar way…
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Why do some documents have more than one DOI?

I was looking for the DOI of a paper (namely Evaluation of Antibacterial Activity of Asparagus racemosus Willd. Root) on http://search.crossref.org/, and found two DOIs associated to…
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