How can I remove clickable hyperlinks in references while keeping all other hyperlinks in my document?

Question

I want to use hyperref in order to create hyperlinks so I can, say, click on a reference to an equation and jump to that equation, or to click on a citation in the text and jump to that reference in the bibliography.

However, I DO NOT want the references in the bibliography themselves to be "clickable", meaning they link to an external website containing the original reference.

I am using

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage[backend=biber, style=phys, biblabel=brackets, sorting=nyt, 
doi=false, isbn=false, url=false]{biblatex}

Including hyperref=false in biblatex removes the clickable hyperlinks in the references, however also the hyperlinks from the text TO the references, which I want to keep.

The only solution I have found is manually commenting both doi and url in my .bib file, which is tedious.

Answer 1

biblatex-phys links parts of the bibliography entry using the doi/url-link field format.

If you don't want that you can just redefine the field format to do nothing with

\DeclareFieldFormat{doi/url-link}{#1}

MWE

\documentclass[british]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}

\usepackage[backend=biber, style=phys, biblabel=brackets, sorting=nyt, 
doi=false, isbn=false, url=false]{biblatex}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\DeclareFieldFormat{doi/url-link}{#1}

\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\begin{document}
Lorem \autocite{sigfridsson}

\printbibliography
\end{document}

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Alternatively, you can get a bit more aggressive about removing url and doi by using a Biber sourcemap.

\documentclass[british]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}

\usepackage[backend=biber, style=phys, biblabel=brackets, sorting=nyt]{biblatex}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\DeclareSourcemap{
  \maps{
    \map{
      \step[fieldset=isbn, null]
    }
    \map{
      \pernottype{online}
      \step[fieldset=doi, null]
      \step[fieldset=eprint, null]
      \step[fieldset=url, null]
      \step[fieldset=urldate, null]
    }
  }
}

\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\begin{document}
Lorem \autocite{sigfridsson}

\printbibliography
\end{document}