2008/04/01 by Edmund Russell, Jennifer B. Kane · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · Computer Science · #Publishing and Scholarly Communication #Digital Humanities and Scholarship #Library Collection Development and Digital Resources #Link (geometry) #Reliability (semiconductor) #The Internet #Internet portal #Computer science #Library science #World Wide Web #Computer network #Physics
paper · doi:10.1353/tech.0.0028
openalex publication_date 2008/04/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
One of the bedrock values of professional historians is reliance on verifiable documentation.We have well-developed methods for storing, citing, and finding many media, including books, journals, and archival material.Recently, historians have relied on a new medium, the internet, to document the sources of their information.Scholars in the sciences, however, have raised alarms about the frequency with which internet sources have disappeared after their citation in journals.An influential article in Science found that 13 percent of internet citations in three leading journals were inactive within twenty-seven months of publication.In five leading medical journals, 4.4 percent of internet citations were inaccessible within three months of publication.In six oncology journals, 33 percent of internet citations decayed within twenty-nine months. 1