• DocumentCode
    1434615
  • Title

    Persistence of Web references in scientific research

  • Author

    Lawrence, Steve ; Pennock, David M. ; Flake, Gary William ; Krovetz, Robert ; Coetzee, Frans M. ; Glover, Eric ; Nielsen, Finn Årup ; Kruger, Andries ; Giles, C. Lee

  • Author_Institution
    NEC Res. Inst., Princeton, NJ, USA
  • Volume
    34
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    2/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    26
  • Lastpage
    31
  • Abstract
    The lack of persistence of Web references has called into question the increasingly common practice of citing URLs in scientific papers. It is argued that although few critical resources have been lost to date, new strategies to manage Internet resources and improved citation practices are necessary to minimize the future loss of information
  • Keywords
    Internet; information resources; Internet resources; URLs; Web references persistence; citation practices; scientific research; Computer science; Data mining; Databases; Internet; Materials reliability; National electric code; Page description languages; Publishing; Resource management; Uniform resource locators;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computer
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9162
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/2.901164
  • Filename
    901164