[RSS Club] Sneak peek at new DOI functionality

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I've been playing about with Rogue Scholar. It's an open-access publication which allows blogs to get a persistent Digital Object Identifier.

If I've set everything up correctly (not a given) then all new posts on this site will be issued with a DOI. Hopefully, this will not include RSS Club posts - as I'd like to keep them as a special private treat just between you and me.

I'm in the process of writing a WordPress plugin to retrieve the DOI and add it to posts. I'm not sure if there's a sensible way to add it into an RSS feed, but I'll give it a go.

Will this be useful? I don't know. My posts sometimes get referenced in proper academic works - I'm not sure if this'll make any difference to that. But it is nice to experiment with these things.

If you have any experience with DOI or Rogue Scholar - please get in touch.

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