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DOIs unambiguously and persistently identify published, trustworthy, citable online scholarly literature. Right?

 

The South Park movie , “Bigger, Longer & Uncut” has a DOI:

a) http://dx.doi.org.pluma.sjfc.edu/10.5240/B1FA-0EEC-C316-3316-3A73-L

So does the pornographic movie, “Young Sex Crazed Nurses”:

b) http://dx.doi.org.pluma.sjfc.edu/10.5240/4CF3-57AB-2481-651D-D53D-Q

And the following DOI points to a fake article on a “Google-Based Alien Detector”:

c) http://dx.doi.org.pluma.sjfc.edu/10.6084/m9.figshare.93964

And the following DOI refers to an infamous fake article on literary theory:

d) http://dx.doi.org.pluma.sjfc.edu/10.2307/466856

This scholarly article discusses the entirely fictitious Australian “Drop Bear”:

Easily add publications to your ORCID profile

Geoffrey Bilder

Geoffrey Bilder – 2013 January 24

In ORCIDR&DSearch

You can now easily search for publications and add them to your ORCID profile in the new beta of Crossref Metadata Search (CRMDS). The user interface is pretty self-explanatory, but if you want to read about it before trying it, here is a summary of how it works.

When you go to to CRMDS, you will see that there is now a small ORCID sign-in button on the top right-hand side of the screen.