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from the someone-should-create-an-internet-archive dept.
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
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday January 29 2015, @06:35PM
Start pulling down the current copyright laws - expand Fair Use rights. Make anything which wishes to call itself educational freely archivable and disseminable in an educational context - in full.
Man, I wish the purpose of copyright was to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts. We might have a chance if that were the case.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday January 29 2015, @09:01PM
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