1 minute read.Chapter 9 - The Closed Book
Hadn’t really noticed before but was fairly gobsmacked by this notice I just saw on the DOI® Handbook:
**Please note that Chapter 9, Operating Procedures is for Registration Agency personnel only.**
DOI® Handbook
doi:10.1000/182
http://www.doi.org/hb.html
And, indeed, the Handbook’s TOC only reconfirms this:
9 Operating procedures*
*The RA password is required for viewing Chapter 9.
9.1 Registering a DOI name with associated metadata
9.2 Prefix assignment
9.3 Transferring DOI names from one Registrant to another
9.4 Handle System® policies and procedures
9.4.1 Overview
9.4.2 Policies and Procedures
9.4.3 Requirements for Administrators of Resolution Services
9.4.4 Protocols and Interfaces
9.5 DOI® System error messages
That’s spooky. A book with a hidden chapter. I really don’t like that at all. Especially on a book aiming to provide general information and guidance. Seems to be that if that information needs to be kept private to RA’s then it has no business rubbing shoulders with public information. I would suggest that the material be opened up or else moved out. Makes me feel so second class.
Further reading
- Dec 14, 2017 – Metadata and integrity: the unlikely bedfellows of scholarly research
- Jul 24, 2008 – Knols and Citations Part II
- Jun 30, 2008 – The Thing About DOI
- May 31, 2008 – Exposing Public Data
- May 29, 2008 – Referencing OpenURL
- Oct 2, 2006 – CrossTech
- Sep 25, 2006 – PRISM Use Cases
- Sep 5, 2006 – Embedding standardized metadata in HTML
