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

[yana breindl]

Thank you David for bringing this topic back to my attention and thank you
all, list members, for your very insightful comments. As I started this
thread one year ago, I just wanted to provide a final update: the
dissertation has been submitted (and successfully defended) with the
original URLs as well as a digital version with hyperlinked URLs, so that
committee members could simply click on the URLs to access them. Everybody
was happy this way and I hope this discussion has been helpful for others
as well.

On 18 August 2012 17:04, David Brake <davidbrake at gmail.com> wrote:

> My objection to using shortened URLs academically is more fundamental - it
> adds an additional potential point of failure between the reader and the
> target address. URL shortening companies can go bust, can be blocked or
> just go offline temporarily.
>
> I note that ironically the folks behind DOIs have themselves produced a
> DOI-shortening service http://shortdoi.org/ . But if the DOI folks go
> bust we are all in trouble...
>
> On 22 Jul 2011, at 15:59, yana breindl <ybreindl at ulb.ac.be> wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >> --------------------------------------------------
> >> http://www.coolcite.com/user/1694
> >> http://weblaw.haifa.ac.il/en/research/resstudents/pages/sharonha.aspx
> >>
> >> -----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
> >>
> >>
> >> ---------------------
> >> Yana BREINDL
> >>
> >> Ph.D Candidate
> >> Dépt des sciences de l'information et de la communication (SIC)
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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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> >
> >
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> >
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