[Air-L] Inclusion of short links in academic publications?

[yana breindl]

Thank you all for your comments!

The reason I asked is not because of a word limit but because one of my
committee members suggested I'd use short links to ease access for readers
of the print dissertation. I do have quite a lot of electronic sources as
footnotes in some of the chapters and he mentioned he'd have typed a
shortened url but not a long one.

An alternative would be to include short urls in the footnotes and add an
appendix with corresponding long links. I'm not sure it's worth the hassle
though.



On 22 July 2011 16:39, Sharon Haleva Amir <sharon at trebcon.com> wrote:

>
> Yana, the only advantage I can think of regarding the usage of shortened
> URL
> is if you're writing an article and there is a words' limitation (as long
> as
> the limitation refers to the bibliography/footnotes as well as the article
> itself), as sometimes the URLs can be quite long.
>
> I think that the need to shorten texts (for twitting etc.) was the basic
> rational for establishing such services.
>
>
> Best Wishes,
> Sharon Haleva Amir, HCLT Fellow
> (PhD Candidate) Faculty of Law,
> University of Haifa, ISRAEL.
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> Subject: [Air-L] Inclusion of short links in academic publications?
>
> Hello all,
>
> I was wondering what your thoughts were concerning the use of shortened
> URLs
> (e.g. tinyURL, bit.ly etc.) to reference electronic sources in a
> dissertation or other academic publication (along with the title, date,
> etc.
> possibly an annexe with the long URL). Has this been done already? Is it
> acceptable? Are there important differences between various shortening
> sites?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Yana
>
>
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> Yana BREINDL
>
> Ph.D Candidate
> Dépt des sciences de l'information et de la communication (SIC)
> Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
>
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-- 
Yana BREINDL

Doctorante
Dépt des sciences de l'information et de la communication (SIC)
Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)

Tél.: + 32 (0)2 650 44 46
E-mail: ybreindl at ulb.ac.be



-- 
Yana BREINDL

Doctorante
Dépt des sciences de l'information et de la communication (SIC)
Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)

Tél.: + 32 (0)2 650 44 46
E-mail: ybreindl at ulb.ac.be