Missing Web References — A Case Study of Five Scholarly Journals

Bhat, Mohammad Hanief

doi:10.18352/lq.7957

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“…The results revealed that within 2 months of publication of the first 2006 issue of each journal, 10 per cent of web citations were inactive and the rate of inactivity rose to 38 per cent after 7 years. Bhat (2009) analyzed the proportion of missing web references of research papers in library and information science. The results revealed that the number of web citations has increased from 41.60 per cent in 1998 to 53.32 per cent in 2002, whereas 32 per cent of them were found to be missing, with error 404 contributing to about 74 per cent of total missing web citations.…”

Section: Review Of Literaturementioning

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Giving life to dead: role of WayBack Machine in recovery of dead URLs

Loan,

Khan,

Andrabi

et al. 2023

DTA

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PurposeThe purpose of the present study is to identify the active and dead links of uniform resource locators (URLs) associated with web references and to compare the effectiveness of Chrome, Google and WayBack Machine in retrieving the dead URLs.Design/methodology/approachThe web references of the Library Hi Tech from 2004 to 2008 were selected for analysis to fulfill the set objectives. The URLs were extracted from the articles to verify their accessibility in terms of persistence and decay. The URLs were then executed directly in the internet browser (Chrome), search engine (Google) and Internet Archive (WayBack Machine). The collected data were recorded in an excel file and presented in tables/diagrams for further analysis.FindingsFrom the total of 1,083 web references, a maximum number was retrieved by the WayBack Machine (786; 72.6 per cent) followed by Google (501; 46.3 per cent) and the lowest by Chrome (402; 37.1 per cent). The study concludes that the WayBack Machine is more efficient, retrieves a maximum number of missing web citations and fulfills the mission of preservation of web sources to a larger extent.Originality/valueA good number of studies have been conducted to analyze the persistence and decay of web-references; however, the present study is unique as it compared the dead URL retrieval effectiveness of internet explorer (Chrome), search engine giant (Google) and WayBack Machine of the Internet Archive.Research limitations/implicationsThe web references of a single journal, namely, Library Hi Tech, were analyzed for 5 years only. A major study across disciplines and sources may yield better results.Practical implicationsURL decay is becoming a major problem in the preservation and citation of web resources. The study has some healthy recommendations for authors, editors, publishers, librarians and web designers to improve the persistence of web references.

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Section: Review Of Literaturementioning

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Giving life to dead: role of WayBack Machine in recovery of dead URLs

Loan,

Khan,

Andrabi

et al. 2023

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“…They further concluded that the .edu domain was the most stable domain with the highest percentage of stability. Bhat (2009) analyzed the Web references in five leading journals in the field of Library and Information Science for over five years from 1998 to 2002. The results revealed that the growth in Web citations increased from 41.6% in 1998 to 53.32% in 2002, whereas almost 32% of them were found to be missing, error 404 being the leading error associated with them contributing to about 74% of the total missing Web citations.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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The decay and persistence of web references

Loan

Shah

2020

DLP

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to identify the persistence and decay of uniform resource locator (URLs) associated with Web references. The decaying of Web references is analyzed in relation to their age, domain, technical errors and error codes. Design/methodology/approach The Web references of the Journal of Informetrics were selected for analysis and interpretation to fulfill the set objectives. The references of all the scholarly articles, excluding editorials and reviews published in the Journal of Informetrics for five years from 2007 to 2011 were recorded in a text file. Later, the URLs were extracted from the articles to verify their accessibility in terms of persistence and decay. The collected data were then transferred into an excel file and tabulated for further analysis and interpretation using simple statistical techniques. Findings The results showed that of the total 7,409 citations retrieved from 221 articles, 358 citations (4.8%) were Web citations. These Web citations were assessed to find their persistence and decay. The results reveal that 115 (32.12%) Web references were missing or dead. The most common error associated with the missing Web citations was Error 404 Page not found, contributing 60% of the total missing citations, followed by 400 Bad Request Error (35.65%). The domain analysis of missing Web citations depicts that most of the missing URLs were associated with the .gov domain (40%), followed by .edu (29.58%) and .com (26.04%). Research limitations/implications The Web references of a single journal, namely, Journal of Informetrics, were analyzed for five years, and hence, the generalization of findings needs to be cautioned. Practical implications The URL decay is becoming a major problem in the preservation and citation of the Web resources, and collaborative efforts are needed to reduce the decaying of URLs. Originality/value A good number of studies have been conducted to analyze the persistence and decay of Web references, as it is the hot topic of research across disciplines, and this study is a step further in the same direction.

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A Study on Legal Deposit Guidelines for Online Digital Materials

Kwak¹,

Kim²,

Park³

et al. 2013

Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Scien

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The purpose of this study is to suggest elements and guidelines for online digital materials in order to ensure its comprehensive collection, preservation, and access in Korea. For the establishment of elements and guidelines, this study examined appropriate advanced countries' legal deposit Acts, discussed with stakeholders, including experts and copyrighters in related areas, and surveyed library users' opinions. Finally, this study suggests 14 elements and guidelines.

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Missing Web References — A Case Study of Five Scholarly Journals

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Giving life to dead: role of WayBack Machine in recovery of dead URLs

Giving life to dead: role of WayBack Machine in recovery of dead URLs

The decay and persistence of web references

A Study on Legal Deposit Guidelines for Online Digital Materials

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