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Uploading garbage files to the DOI system of a journal: a new type of misconduct
Author(s) -
JUNG Kyu Won,
WAGERxyv Elizabeth,
HUH Sun
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
learned publishing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.06
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1741-4857
pISSN - 0953-1513
DOI - 10.1087/20140406
Subject(s) - upload , misconduct , garbage , government (linguistics) , action (physics) , law , computer science , criminology , computer security , internet privacy , political science , world wide web , sociology , linguistics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , programming language
We report an unusual case in which garbage files were uploaded to the DOI system of a Korean scholarly journal ( Journal of Educational Evaluation of Health Professions ). This was a deliberate attack to disrupt the journal so that the DOI pages were directed to an invalid page. It was a mysterious type of attack that had never previously occurred in the DOI system. This behaviour can therefore be considered as a new type of misconduct. From the legal viewpoint, this action may be considered a criminal offence, under Korean law, to disrupt a national institute which publishes a journal on the basis of its constituting interference with a government office in the execution of its duties. We report this strange case so that publishers and editors can be alert to this new type of cyber‐crime and to help them prevent any reoccurrence.