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Scholarly Context Not Found: One in Five Articles Suffers from Reference Rot.

posted by martyb on Thursday January 29 2015, @07:32AM   
from the someone-should-create-an-internet-archive dept.

AnonTechie writes:

While the immediacy of publishing information on the Internet dramatically speeds the dissemination of scholarly knowledge, the transition from a paper-based to a web-based scholarly communication system has introduced challenges that Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists are seeking to address.

"For more than 70 percent of papers that link to web pages, revisiting the originally referenced web content proved impossible," said Herbert Van de Sompel, of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library. "These results are alarming because vanishing references undermine the long-term integrity of the scholarly record."

http://phys.org/news/2015-01-online-scholarly-articles-affected.html

[Article]: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0115253

• Don't be a fool and use a DOI (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 29 2015, @03:19PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 29 2015, @03:19PM (#139190)

  This is precisely the issue DOIs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier [wikipedia.org] were created to address.

  How many DOIs for your articles can you find here: http://www.crossref.org/ [crossref.org]?

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