The Missing Link

Assessing the Reliability of Internet Citations in History Journals

Bibliographic Data

ID4022475
AuthorsEdmund Russell (0000-0001-7504-0304), J B Kane (0000-0002-5833-4797), Jennifer Kane
Year2008
Volume49
Issue2
Pages420-429
Publication date2008-04-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTechnology and Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/tech.0.0028
OpenAlexW2083248700
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited3

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

Computer network · Internet portal · Library science · Link (geometry) · Physics · Reliability (semiconductor) · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · Library Collection Development and Digital Resources · Publishing and Scholarly Communication

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