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ISSN, DOI and preservation: making sure your journal still exists in twenty years
Identifying and preserving are two different problems with different solutions. A journal that solves only the first has links that work today and content that can vanish tomorrow.
The metadata your journal has but is not exporting
In one journal we analysed, 227 out of 1,411 articles displayed the affiliation on the article page but left it out of their metadata feed. The data existed; for the rest of the world, it did not.
The mistyped ORCID: the most common silent error in a journal’s metadata
Harvesting metadata from journals across the region, we found ORCIDs swapped between co-authors, the journal’s own ORCID attached to an author, and the same code repeated across sixteen bylines. How to prevent it.
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