[Cod-bugs] Missing Journal Information

[Saulius Gražulis]

On 2025-08-10 18:52, Robert McMeeking - STFC UKRI wrote:
>
> Hi Saulius
>
> Here are a list of “recovered” article titles. It need a bit of work. 
> For instance there appear to be problems rendering Unicode character 
> after transfer from the linux server to my laptop.
>
Thank you very much!
>
> Will get back with further details later when I get to check things 
> out on Monday
>
OK, let me know how it goes. If possible, please include also DOI column 
for each COD ID (for cross-checks), and add the column headers.

Regards,
Saulius

> Regards
>
> Bob
>
> *From:*Saulius Gražulis <grazulis at ibt.lt>
> *Sent:* 07 August 2025 14:42
> *To:* McMeeking, Robert (STFC,DL,SC) <robert.mcmeeking at stfc.ac.uk>; 
> 'Antanas Vaitkus' <antanas.vaitkus90 at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* cod-bugs at ibt.lt
> *Subject:* Re: [Cod-bugs] Missing Journal Information
>
> 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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