Friday, October 28, 2016

Please assign informative names to downloaded PDFs!

Bravo for the journals that assign human-readable informative names to the PDF versions of articles downloaded from their web sites.  For example, these naming schemes are very nice:

Hum. Mol. Genet.-2015-Simpkin-3752-63.pdf
PNAS-2005-Storey-12837-42.pdf
Int. J. Epidemiol.-2015-Sharp-1288-304.pdf


Boo for the journals that assign non-informative names to their PDF files.  For example, these naming schemes are not informative to me (even though the DOI is part of the name of the first two):

art%3A10.1186%2Fgb-2013-14-5-r42.pdf
art%3A10.1007%2Fs11357-016-9927-9.pdf
ijerph-12-14461.pdf

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