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Use DOI to avoid Bad Links

I would suggest that, when adding Books or Links to Guide pages, editors use Digital Object Identifier (DOI) names for URLs when available. For example, the current URL for "Lafontaine J.D. & B.C. Schmidt, 2015. ZooKeys. 40: 1–239" is "10.3897/zookeys.527.6151" so the URL would be:

https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=6151

The DOI name is 10.3897/zookeys.527.6151 so the URL would be:

https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.527.6151

The International DOI Foundation offers this service to its members so that when the URL for a web page changes, the DOI will continue to resolve the updated location. I'm thinking that editors should add links as follows to make it clear to users that the link is using the DOI name so they can copy and past knowing that the URL will always be good even if the current address changes. It's becoming a standard practice:

DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.527.6151

or

https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.527.6151