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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

• archive.org (Score: 3, Informative) by Freeman on Thursday January 29 2015, @04:03PM

  by Freeman (732) on Thursday January 29 2015, @04:03PM (#139204) Journal

  How long does the Internet Archive save versions of webpages? Do they keep the old versions forever? Assuming they keep old versions "forever" a simple solution might be linking to the Internet Archive instead of the actual page itself.

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  Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"

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