People who publish in mainline academic journals may have found that:
- A strange series of letters and numbers has been linked to their works.
- Book publishers are inserting various strings of alphanumeric symbols in their References lists.
These are permanent digital object identifiers (DOIs), with the goal of each object having a globally unique identifier into perpetuity (forever). See www.doi.org for details.
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