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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

• Re:Now there's a surprise (Score: 2) by Wootery on Monday February 02 2015, @12:43PM

  by Wootery (2341) on Monday February 02 2015, @12:43PM (#140268)

  I oppose any change which would forcibly crush the academic publishing industry... despite that I dislike the industry.

  Property rights are a cornerstone of Western society. It does not do for the government to step in and decree that We don't like this use of copyright. Game over.

  I see no reason not to require tax-funded work to be freely available though. That should be required by law.

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