[Cod-bugs] Missing Journal Information

[Saulius Gražulis]

On 2025-08-07 11:33, Robert McMeeking - STFC UKRI wrote:
>
> I have done some tests on some of the entries with article title 
> issues. The ones I checked *do *appear to have titles. I will try to 
> get the corrections to you quite soon.
>
We can find COD entries without titles in the COD SQL database. I can 
send you a list of such entries or an SQL query if you would like.
>
> I have notices problems with a number of the dois. My scripts appear 
> to have problems containing any if characters: <>()
>
Lol – I had exactly the same problem :).

I think we need to us 'urlencode' for them before sending them to the 
doi.org as a DOI request, it worked for me. I can send yo may shell hack 
for this if that would help.

> I can see how these characters might give problems in a Unix 
> environment. But I assume I should be able to fix the problems. Having 
> said that I am a bit surprised that these characters are allowed in 
> valid dois!
>
Yes, DOIs are more permissive than even URLs. No idea why they did that, 
but that's what we have. Let me know if you would like to look at any of 
my hacks on this.

Regards,
Saulius

PS. The 40k+ bibliographies for COD entries with missing years or page 
numbers were downloaded. I'll have to look at them and sort them out 
(some  have failed since the DOIs are not from journals but from 
university repos, some journals no longer hand our page numbers or do 
not include them into DOI-derived bibliography files...). We'll see how 
it works but a lot of COD entries can be fixed now.

S.G.

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