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The DOI resolver at doi.org will normally redirect a user to the resource location of a DOI. For example, the DOI "10.1126/science.169.3946.635" redirects to a landing page describing the article, "The Structure of Ordinary Water". Content negotiated
requests to doi.org that ask for a content type which isn't "text/html" will be redirected to a metadata service hosted by the DOI's registration agency. CrossRef, DataCite and mEDRA support content negotiated DOIs via
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href="https://data.crossref.org">https://data.crossref.org</a>,
<a href="https://data.datacite.org">https://data.datacite.org</a> and <a href="http://data.medra.org">http://data.medra.org</a> respectively.
requests to doi.org that ask for a content type which isn't "text/html" will be redirected to a metadata service hosted by the DOI's registration agency. CrossRef, DataCite and mEDRA support content negotiated DOIs via their respective resolvers.
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CrossRef metadata service
http://data.crossref.org/10.1126/science.169.3946.635
https://api.crossref.org/10.1126/science.169.3946.635/transform
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Shouldn't we add text wanting people that they should never try to take a shortcut and try to call the metadata service directly because the location of that is likely to change (hence the temporary redirect).

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Yes. We did that, gently, by removing the para. But I do think it could be stated more strongly.

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