bibtex-1.0, or maybe not

[Paulo Ney de Souza]

The problem Thomas is that URL is ephemera.

Most used by the big publishers have session information in them and what
is valid for you is not valid for me. My library offers me several URLs
with access to content -- they all depend on my login.

CTAN has some manuals containing hundreds of URLs -- which NONE of them
work. If you have a DOI, you have something, if you don't -- there is not a
point in even using it. It may disappear before that guy that printed the
article tries to get to it.

Paulo Ney


On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 7:49 PM Schneider, Thomas (NIH/NCI) [E] <
schneidt at mail.nih.gov> wrote:

> Paulo:
>
> > Displaying a URL in print is the same as walking around showing your
> > underwear.
>
> Well you could replace the \url{} inside the note with
>
> \href{http ...}{my outer clothing}.
>
> Then you will see your clothing and hide the unides.  I used to do
> that but for scientific papers it is always best to provide the
> explicit URL in the citations because sometimes people will physically
> print the paper and the URL would be lost ... and they would hate the
> author ...  However, using \href{}{} meant I was always duplicating
> the URL.  So I switched all my references to \url{} and now I only
> need to give it once.
>
> Tom
>
>   Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D.
>   Senior Investigator
>   National Institutes of Health
>   National Cancer Institute
>   Center for Cancer Research
>   RNA Biology Laboratory
>   Biological Information Theory Group
>   Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
>   schneidt at mail.nih.gov
>   https://ccr.cancer.gov/staff-directory/thomas-d-schneider
>   alum.mit.edu/www/toms
>   https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms
>
>
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