[Air-l] Scholars Note 'Decay' of Citations to Online References

[Lilia Efimova]

Ulla,

thanks for the pointer. I wonder if Internet Archive
(http://www.archive.org) and it's Wayback Machine can play a role
here... I use it myself when referring to important sources that are
not online anymore. May be important online references could be
registered with something like doi (http://www.doi.org) and then have
a service that would check if original is online and forward to it's
copy in Internet Archive if not...

Lilia
blog.mathemagenic.com 


On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:00:51 -0500 (EST), Ulla Bunz
<bunz at scils.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> The link below will take you to an article debating the reliability of online
> citations. The article mentions New Media & Society and quotes Steve Jones. I'm not
> sure how long the article will be available for free... I think up to five days.
> However, the main point (the URL's given in print journal publications are not very
> reliable as websites are taken offline or content changes) is a very important one
> and should be of interest to many of us. Any thoughts?
> Ulla
> 
> http://chronicle.com/temp/email.php?id=sf7w3nb31u4v08963wmi6on26wwua6bq
> 
>  From the Chronicle
> 
> This article, "Scholars Note 'Decay' of Citations to Online
> References," is available online at this address:
> 
> http://chronicle.com/temp/email.php?id=sf7w3nb31u4v08963wmi6on26wwua6bq
> 
> This article will be available to non-subscribers of The
> Chronicle for up to five days after it is e-mailed.
> 
> The article is always available to Chronicle subscribers at this
> address:
> 
> http://chronicle.com/daily/2005/03/2005031402n.htm
> 
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