CTAN has a new package: uri

[CTAN Announcements]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2011 Hans-Martin Münch submitted the

  uri

package.

Summary description: Hyperlinks URIs of type arXiv, ASIN, DOI, HDL, NBN, PubMed, OID, TINY, TINY with preview, and XMPP and provides com- mands citeurl, mailto, ukoeln, and uref.
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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This package allows to automatically hyperlink URIs of type arXiv, ASIN, DOI, 
HDL, NBN, PubMed, OID, TINY, TINY with preview, and XMPP in such a way that they 
are resolved to an address understood by web browsers without native support or 
add-ons for such types of uri and provides commands citeurl, mailto, ukoeln, and 
uref. 

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This package is located at 
   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/uri/
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=uri
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 
appear).  We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .  
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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Thanks for the upload.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schöpf