Please, do not use shortened links in academic publications: this removes so much valuable information. To help your reader, provide an online copy of your bibliography (and track clicks from there if you must) -- both of the Web and non-Web materials. AOIR should speak out loudly *against* so-called "citation formats" such as MLA's which do not require a URL for native web formats. When dealing with shortened URLs that have broken -- or if you want to contribute to the archiving effort, check the Archive Team's project on shortened URLs: http://urlte.am -Jodi On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Johann Hoechtl < Johann.Hoechtl@donau-uni.ac.at> wrote:
Ironically, the link doesn't work for me - Time out.
Albeit the idea is appealing! I still think it's a good idea to work with short links for ease of readability and facilitate manual entry of web addresses in a browser. A corresponding short - to - longlist in the appendix of the paper should be enough for a wayback machine.
A short-url service specifically for acedemic research would also be a great starter for collaborative url collection, but I am digressing ...
Johann
Monica Barratt <tronica@gmail.com> schrieb am 26.07.2011 um 14:09 in Nachricht <CAF9Ekp1j_i6853QXnixKN3A6upFO1z63+caW0Sc24aZr0Q75Yg@mail.gmail.com>: Does anyone have an opinion on using webcitation as an archiving service? http://www.webcitation.org/faq
They seem to be made for this kind of work. I was considering using them in my thesis reference list and was thinking about including the short URL only, but can see now that maybe that's not the best idea. However, webcitation claim they won't 'disappear' down the track. I guess that's been said before!
Cheers Monica
On 26 July 2011 13:33, Denise N. Rall <denrall@yahoo.com> wrote:
Dear Johan -
At my uni, they move the papers into a digital repository called bpress. There are digital repositories on the market as well.
Each paper included contains the last draft the researcher submitted for publication which avoids copyright tangles (apparently). Other works included on the page are cleared for copyright by our library staff.
bpress generates its own statistics on how many times each reference (paper or thesis, etc.) has been accessed. So one always knows how many times the paper has been accessed. So do the administrators.
Cheers, Denise
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--- On Sat, 23/7/11, Joseph Reagle <joseph.2011@reagle.org> wrote:
From: Joseph Reagle <joseph.2011@reagle.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Antw: Re: Inclusion of short links in academic publications? To: "Johann Hoechtl" <Johann.Hoechtl@donau-uni.ac.at> Cc: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Received: Saturday, 23 July, 2011, 1:03 AM On Friday, July 22, 2011, Johann Hoechtl wrote:
If you are the one who created the shortlinks, it's likely that you have the ability to track how many times it was clicked (if you register at the shortening service)
OK, understood.
* If you happen to publish a paper in a (closed) journal you are able to interpolate a figure how often your submission was read (if there is a statistical figure how many paper readers actually follow references, footnotes or plain internet links). Did the reviewers took a deep look into your references? From that you can derive a, admittedly problematic, cost-value ratio of the journal.
Ah, I was thinking the primary thing I'd want to know was how many people read my paper but that's not something I'd have access to. But I can see your interpolation point though I'd be cognizant that (again) there are many services out there.
As to other reasons (usefulness of my sources, and countries and such), those haven't been too compelling to me, and I'll note that this might steal page rank link juice -- since references to things will now have multiples URLs. _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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