I spent a summer using Google and other searches for a project studying high school curriculum across Canada and other pan Canadian topics like health services. I had fifty pages of Chicago reference styles links in my bibliography. My only point in sharing this, is to suggest that there are automated tools you can use for this size of list. I used a custom bibliographic style in RefWorks for this one. You can also do some good automation with a spreadsheet and save as txt files and then re-opening them in Excel/Open Office where you can do slice and dice text stuff with special separator symbols besides the usually comma separated. Works for iTunes exported txt files too if you want to try having some music related data munging fun. Then again you could learn PERL and do even more fancy stuff. Does anyone do automation with LaTeX files? My thesis was going to be typeset in LaTeX not Word. My opinion on the use of shortened URLs would be that I want the full long URL, so as a reader I can assess the link before clicking. I would not want many dot coms in an academic paper only gov's or edu's or org's. That's my two cents worth. Peter Timusk at571@ncf.ca ptimusk@sympatico.ca web: www.crystalcomputing.net blogs www.cyborgcitizen.org -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of yana breindl Sent: July-22-11 10:59 AM To: Air-L@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Inclusion of short links in academic publications? Thank you all for your comments! The reason I asked is not because of a word limit but because one of my committee members suggested I'd use short links to ease access for readers of the print dissertation. I do have quite a lot of electronic sources as footnotes in some of the chapters and he mentioned he'd have typed a shortened url but not a long one. An alternative would be to include short urls in the footnotes and add an appendix with corresponding long links. I'm not sure it's worth the hassle though. On 22 July 2011 16:39, Sharon Haleva Amir <sharon@trebcon.com> wrote:
Yana, the only advantage I can think of regarding the usage of shortened URL is if you're writing an article and there is a words' limitation (as long as the limitation refers to the bibliography/footnotes as well as the article itself), as sometimes the URLs can be quite long.
I think that the need to shorten texts (for twitting etc.) was the basic rational for establishing such services.
Best Wishes, Sharon Haleva Amir, HCLT Fellow (PhD Candidate) Faculty of Law, University of Haifa, ISRAEL. -------------------------------------------------- http://www.coolcite.com/user/1694 http://weblaw.haifa.ac.il/en/research/resstudents/pages/sharonha.aspx
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of yana breindl Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 11:27 AM To: Air-L@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Inclusion of short links in academic publications?
Hello all,
I was wondering what your thoughts were concerning the use of shortened URLs (e.g. tinyURL, bit.ly etc.) to reference electronic sources in a dissertation or other academic publication (along with the title, date, etc. possibly an annexe with the long URL). Has this been done already? Is it acceptable? Are there important differences between various shortening sites?
Thank you,
Yana
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