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Plugins for Digital Object Identifier (DOI) lookup

URL: http://www.poirrier.be/~jean-etienne/software/searchdoi/index.php

Last modification: November 17th, 2006

Aim

These are "search plugins" for Firefox (the one based on Open Search also works with Internet Explorer). They allow you to quickly look for a specific Digital Object Identifier (DOI). These DOI are more and more used in biomedical sciences. One of their interesting features is that they allow direct linking to the scientific article. More information on DOI can be found on the DOI System website and on this article on Wikipedia.

DOI plugin for Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7

Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7 support the OpenSearch description format.

In Firefox 2, all you have to do is to click on the small arrow near your Firefox search box and choose the "Add DOI lookup" option. It will then automatically be installed for you. You'll then be able to select this plugin to look for your DOIs (see screenshot on the right).

Since I don't use Internet Explorer 7, I don't know exactly how to install this plugin with it. It seems they answer this question in the IE7 support page (look for "add other search provider").

Anyway, you can also download the plugin file (2ko) and install it by yourself.

DOI plugin for previous Firefox versions

Firefox versions 1.x used another kind of search system. Just click here to install it right now. Or you can download the plugin file (2ko) and install it by yourself.

Although I tested this version, please note that I am not currently using it. If you have any problem, please report the bug or use the backup copy on the Mycroft website.

Other DOI-related plugins

• Zac Hanley wrote a DOI lookup tool for the Google toolbar.
• HubMed has a Firefox search plugin for their own search engine (including DOIs). My plugin only look for DOIs but it directly uses the DOI server.
• Dartmouth College Library wrote a LibX Toolbar Extension for Firefox. You need a direct access to the library in order to use all the functions.
• DOIeasyLink.NET has a DOI extension. It's not really a search plugin but it links DOIs to the search engine (doi:10.1186/1740-3391-4-10 brings you to the correct reference).

Bibliography

This section is more technical and just here for me to remember some interesting links and information sources:

• Mozilla Firefox search engines
• Creating OpenSearch plugins for Firefox
• The data: URI kitchen (to construct image data from existing icon file)
• The OpenSearch home page
• Advanced Mozilla-Search Plugin Documentation, Quality Guidelines and search plugin validator
• Parameter passing to proxy server using the DOI system