1) “It costs nothing to get an ORCID ID, so why do you mention money?”
Researchgate cost ‘nothing’ neither, but it win thousands dollar per month! It just sells your profile to any buyer and spam others!
2) “The point of DOI is that a DOI doesn’t change, where a website can, and often does”. If this is really the case, why then the DOI policy requires that the journal or website issuing DOIs must be online or active all time?
Sometimes, websites evolve or change names or break completely, what then would be the status of DOIs?
isn’t broken?
So, DOIs are useless, otherwise there should not be a condition that a website should be alive all time.
To be worthwhile, DOIs should be as an independent library or global archive or repository that standalone regardless of the journal or publisher (in the same way as PubMed for example) to archive all the DOI on internet in one and same place.
