Ulla, thanks for the pointer. I wonder if Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org) and it's Wayback Machine can play a role here... I use it myself when referring to important sources that are not online anymore. May be important online references could be registered with something like doi (http://www.doi.org) and then have a service that would check if original is online and forward to it's copy in Internet Archive if not... Lilia blog.mathemagenic.com On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:00:51 -0500 (EST), Ulla Bunz <bunz@scils.rutgers.edu> wrote:

The link below will take you to an article debating the reliability of online citations. The article mentions New Media & Society and quotes Steve Jones. I'm not sure how long the article will be available for free... I think up to five days. However, the main point (the URL's given in print journal publications are not very reliable as websites are taken offline or content changes) is a very important one and should be of interest to many of us. Any thoughts? Ulla

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This article, "Scholars Note 'Decay' of Citations to Online References," is available online at this address:

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