I forwarded this post on to Amy Brand at Crossref and got the following answer:
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At 5:30 PM -0500 2/9/02, Amy Brand wrote:
Without examples of the links and a description of the error message, it is
difficult to know what's going on. We have found that some DOIs get a
handle system error message (most users think this is an error from the
publisher's site), which means that the DOI hasn't been registered. It
appears that publishers are sending out DOIs to third parties before
registering them with CrossRef. There is an email address on the error page
where information can be sent and this gets back to CrossRef.
It is useful to get examples of DOIs that don't resolve and then we can
approach the publisher to see what the problem is.
Amy
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At 9:51 AM +0000 2/8/02, Lesley Crawshaw wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On a number of occasions recently when I've been demonstrating ejournals to
>my users I have been showing them how the CrossRef links link to other
>publisher's journals. On several occasions the CrossRef links have lead to
>an error message on the other publisher's site. In some cases I was
>surprised to see the CrossRef links since I was sure that the particular
>reference in question was not available electronically.
>
>How are these errors monitored so that the quality of the CrossRef links is
>improved?
>
>I don't know if other people have come across these problems.
>
>Cheers
>Lesley
>
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>LIS, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB UK
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