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DOIs unambiguously and persistently identify published, trustworthy, citable online scholarly literature. Right?

The South Park movie , “Bigger, Longer & Uncut” has a DOI: a) http://0-dx-doi-org.library.alliant.edu/10.5240/B1FA-0EEC-C316-3316-3A73-L So does the pornographic movie, “Young Sex Crazed Nurses”: b) http://0-dx-doi-org.library.alliant.edu/10.5240/4CF3-57AB-2481-651D-D53D-Q And the following DOI points to a fake article on a “Google-Based Alien Detector”: c) http://0-dx-doi-org.library.alliant.edu/10.6084/m9.figshare.93964 And the following DOI refers to an infamous fake article on literary theory: d) http://0-dx-doi-org.library.alliant.edu/10.2307/466856 This scholarly article discusses the entirely fictitious Australian “Drop Bear”: e) http://0-dx-doi-org.library.alliant.edu/10.1080/00049182.2012.731307 The following two DOIs point to the same article- the first DOI points to the final author version, and the second DOI points to the final published version:

Easily add publications to your ORCID profile

You can now easily search for publications and add them to your ORCID profile in the new beta of Crossref Metadata Search (CRMDS). The user interface is pretty self-explanatory, but if you want to read about it before trying it, here is a summary of how it works. When you go to to CRMDS, you will see that there is now a small ORCID sign-in button on the top right-hand side of the screen.