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		pishpash on July 23, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The “Million Dollar Homepage” as a Decaying Digita... Whatever happened to DOI? (Or leveraging Google's knowledge of redirects?) A lot of rot is hosting changes; the documents, if the author cared, could well be hosted somewhere else.

raattgift on July 23, 2017 | [–]

DOI is still there; in fact one might say that it's sci-hub and not google that has made DOI actually useful.

ccoggins on July 23, 2017 | [–]

Are you referring to Digital Object Identifiers? If so, they are still being used. I've only seen it be utilized for scientific research data though - check out datacite.org

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