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

[Peter Timusk]

I spent a summer using Google and other searches for a project studying high
school curriculum across Canada and other pan Canadian topics like health
services. I had fifty pages of Chicago reference styles links in my
bibliography. My only point in sharing this, is to suggest that there are
automated tools you can use for this size of list. I used a custom
bibliographic style in RefWorks for this one. You can also do some good
automation with a spreadsheet and save as txt files and then re-opening them
in Excel/Open Office where you can do slice and dice text stuff with special
separator symbols besides the usually comma separated. Works for iTunes
exported txt files too if you want to try having some music related data
munging fun. Then again you could learn PERL and do even more fancy stuff.

Does anyone do automation with LaTeX files? My thesis was going to be
typeset in LaTeX not Word.

My opinion on the use of shortened URLs would be that I want the full long
URL, so as a reader I can assess the link before clicking. I would not want
many dot coms in an academic paper only gov's or edu's or org's. That's my
two cents worth.

Peter Timusk
at571 at ncf.ca
ptimusk at sympatico.ca
web: www.crystalcomputing.net
blogs www.cyborgcitizen.org


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[mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of yana breindl
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Subject: [Air-L] Inclusion of short links in academic publications?

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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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org
> [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of yana breindl
> Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 11:27 AM
> To: Air-L at listserv.aoir.org
> 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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>
> 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)

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