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Hiya, In my view, the only way to maintain a persistent link is to have the material on your own website and own it yourself. It is true that proponents of identifies advocate for such systems on the basis of persistence, however, it seems to me unlikely that agencies that cannot manage to redirect known URLs will manage to keep identifier repositories up to date. I have already hit 404s when following DOI links, and expect a proliferation of them should the system become widely popular. -- Stephen Piegza, Amanda M. wrote: > Hello, > > Like most of you, I have my repository pages to link to the > publishers' version, but want to have a persistent link so we don't > have to keep checking for dead links, worry when one publisher buys > out another, etc. I've been searching for a 'list' of the largest > publishers and how they do persistent links (DOIs, exceptions, etc). > > Does anyone know of more up-to-date information on persistent links > and how to cite than this one: > http://www.lib.vt.edu/help/tech/persistentlinks.html ? Most of the > information on persistent links and who provides DOIs is correct, but > this is out of date (for example, Blackwell and Synergy as separate). > > Thanks, > > Amanda Piegza > > -- Stephen Downes ~ Research Officer ~ National Research Council Canada http://www.downes.ca ~ [log in to unmask] __\|/__ Free Learning