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Have a DOI but don't know what to do with it?
What is a DOI?
DOI is an acronym for "Digital Object Identifier"
Think of a DOI as another, (more stable), type of URL (e.g. http://www.crop.cri.nz), which needs to be told where to find the resource for which you have the shortcut. This is done using a resolver, which will look-up the item that 'belongs' to the DOI, and find where it's kept. In this case, you'll be using the resolver: http://dx.doi.org. A particular problem with electronic journals is that publishers of electronic journals tend to swap and change titles, so a DOI works well in this situation.
To find out more, please see either www.doi.org, or the Wikipedia.org entry for DOI.
Resolve a DOI for me!
Type or paste the DOI into the text box. Click Resolve it!, and your browser will take you to a Web page (URL) associated with that DOI.
DOI Resolver Tools
You may of course, choose to use the bookmarklet function available from the DOI.org site, or use the Firefox 2 plugin, or the
Internet Explorer 7 "search provider"
(both are courtesy of Jean-Etienne Poirrier).
Lookup a PMID (PubMed article ID)
Type or paste the PMID into the text box.
You may want to change your display option.
Click Lookup, and your browser will take you to a PubMed result for that PMID.
Websearch for fulltext using the Article Title (- Google Hack)
Authors often make preprints of their articles available through institutional repositories and/or their own webpages, so it is worth trying Google to see if other versions of this paper are available. This "Google hack" makes it easy!
Type or paste the Article Title, (without any "quotes"), into the text box.
Click Find me (please?), and your browser will open a new window with the Google results for that article.