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Was outraged (outraged, I tell you) that one of my favorite online comics, PhD, didn't include DOIs in their recent bibliography of Christmas-related citations.. So I've compiled them below.

We care about these things so that you don't have to. Bet you will sleep better at night knowing this.

Or perhaps not...

A Christmas Reading List... with DOIs.

Citation:  Biggs, R, Douglas, A, Macfarlane, R, Dacie, J, Pitney, W, Merskey, C & O'Brien, J, 1952, 'Christmas Disease', BMJ, vol. 2, no. 4799, pp. 1378-1382.
CrossRef DOI:  http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.2.4799.1378

Title:  More Than a Labor of Love: Gender Roles and Christmas Gift Shopping
Citation:  Fischer, E & Arnold, S, 1990, 'More Than a Labor of Love: Gender Roles and Christmas Gift Shopping', Journal of Consumer Research, vol. 17, no. 3, p. 333.
CrossRef DOI:  http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/208561

Title:  Looking at Christmas trees in the nucleolus
Citation:  Scheer, U, Xia, B, Merkert, H & Weisenberger, D, 1997, 'Looking at Christmas trees in the nucleolus', Chromosoma, vol. 105, no. 7-8, pp. 470-480.
CrossRef DOI:  http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s004120050209

Title:  The Vela glitch of Christmas 1988
Citation:  McCulloch, P, Hamilton, P, McConnell, D & King, E, 1990, 'The Vela glitch of Christmas 1988', Nature, vol. 346, no. 6287, pp. 822-824.
CrossRef DOI:  http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/346822a0

Title:  Cardiac Mortality Is Higher Around Christmas and New Year's Than at Any Other Time: The Holidays as a Risk Factor for Death
Citation:  Phillips, D, 2004, 'Cardiac Mortality Is Higher Around Christmas and New Year's Than at Any Other Time: The Holidays as a Risk Factor for Death', Circulation, vol. 110, no. 25, pp. 3781-3788.
CrossRef DOI:  http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/01.CIR.0000151424.02045.F7

Title:  Red Crabs in Rain Forest, Christmas Island: Biotic Resistance to Invasion by an Exotic Snail
Citation:  Lake, P & O'Dowd, D, 1991, 'Red Crabs in Rain Forest, Christmas Island: Biotic Resistance to Invasion by an Exotic Snail', Oikos, vol. 62, no. 1, p. 25.
CrossRef DOI:  http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3545442

Title:  The Carvedilol Hibernation Reversible Ischaemia Trial, Marker of Success (CHRISTMAS) study Methodology of a randomised, placebo controlled, multicentre study of carvedilol in hibernation and heart failure
Citation:  Pennell, D, 2000, 'The Carvedilol Hibernation Reversible Ischaemia Trial, Marker of Success (CHRISTMAS) study Methodology of a randomised, placebo controlled, multicentre study of carvedilol in hibernation and heart failure', International Journal of Cardiology, vol. 72, no. 3, pp. 265-274.
CrossRef DOI:  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0167-5273(99)00198-9

Posted by Geoffrey Bilder at 06:39 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

In order to encourage publishers and other content producers to embed metadata into their PDFs, we have released an experimental tool called "pdfmark", This open source tool allows you to add XMP metadata to a PDF. What's really cool, is that if you give the tool a CrossRef DOI, it will lookup the metadata in CrossRef and then apply said metadata to the PDF. More detail can be found on the pdfmark page on the CrossRef Labs site. The usual weasels words and excuses about "experiments" apply.

Posted by Geoffrey Bilder at 10:28 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Inspired by Google's recent promotion of QR Codes, I thought it might be fun to experiment with encoding a CrossRef DOI and a bit of metadata into one of the critters. I've put a short write-up of the experiment on the CrossRef Labs site, which includes a demonstration of how you can generate a QR Code for any given CrossRef DOI.

Put them on postcards and send them to your friends for the holidays. Tattoo them on your pets. The possibilities are endless.

Posted by Geoffrey Bilder at 12:35 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)