However, we have a cohort of users who have expressed a need for a reference standard which matches established academic practice. There is also a use-case of a digital library which maintains a cache of works deposited via DOI. If the DOI cannot resolve to a working website, a service ...
Standard web addresses as URLs used in academic citations are prone to link rot (see:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0115253), which reduces the ability to verify claims in the research. This also applies to government documents cited with URLs in the literature, and so undermines use ...