Uniform Resource Locator Decay in Dermatology Journals

An empirical study of the accessibility of web references in two Chinese academic journals

“…What strategies should be introduced to tackle this problem? Although some authors have discussed the reasons and given some suggestions on this problem after experiments [LAWRENCE & AL., 2001;RUMSEY, 2002;SPINELLIS, 2003;CASSERLY & BIRD, 2003;DELLAVALLE & AL., 2003;DIMITROVA & BUGEJA, 2006;WREN & AL, 2006;, deep and systematic analyses still need to be conducted.…”

Self-archiving dermatology articles

“…[2][3][4][5] When authors publish in closed-access traditional journals, self-archiving makes their work accessible to those without subscriptions or medical-library access (including peers in developing countries and the lay public) and may also improve the preservation of digital content 6,7 ; a downside of self-archiving, however, remains the potential loss of revenue to scientific societies dependent on subscriptions or manuscript access fees. 8 When deciding whether and, if so, at what stage(s), to self-archive, authors should examine the policies of journals to which the final manuscript will be or has been submitted.…”

Web Citation Availability

“…In a study of papers in dermatological journals published between 1999 and 2004, Wren and colleagues found that 81.7 percent of URLs cited in papers published in 2004 were available. 4 The percentage decreased with time to an availability rate of 65.4 percent for URLs cited in papers published in 1999.…”