Wayback machine: reincarnation to vanished online citations

Q Social Sciences

Program-Electronic Library and Information Systems Pub Date : 2015-03-26 DOI:10.1108/PROG-07-2013-0039

B T Sampath Kumar, D. Vinay Kumar, K. Prithviraj

引用次数: 5

Abstract

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to know the rate of loss of online citations used as references in scholarly journals. It also indented to recover the vanished online citations using Wayback Machine and also to calculate the half-life period of online citations. Design/methodology/approach – The study selected three journals published by Emerald publication. All 389 articles published in these three scholarly journals were selected. A total of 15,211 citations were extracted of which 13,281 were print citations and only 1,930 were online citations. The online citations so extracted were then tested to determine whether they were active or missing on the Web. W3C Link Checker was used to check the existence of online citations. The online citations which got HTTP error message while testing for its accessibility were then entered in to the search box of the Wayback Machine to recover vanished online citations. Findings – Study found that only 12.69 percent (1,930 out of 15,211) citations were online...

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时光机:转世到消失的在线引文

目的-本文的目的是了解学术期刊中用作参考文献的在线引文的损失率。利用Wayback Machine恢复消失的在线引文，计算在线引文的半衰期。设计/方法/方法-本研究选择了Emerald出版社出版的三种期刊。在这三种学术期刊上发表的389篇文章全部被选中。共提取15211条引文，其中印刷引文13281条，在线引文1930条。然后对提取出来的在线引文进行测试，以确定它们在网络上是活跃的还是缺失的。使用W3C Link Checker检查在线引文是否存在。在测试可访问性时出现HTTP错误信息的在线引文，将其输入到Wayback Machine的搜索框中，恢复消失的在线引文。研究发现，在15211次引用中，只有12.69%(1930次)是在线引用的……

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来源期刊

Program-Electronic Library and Information Systems 工程技术-计算机：信息系统

CiteScore

1.30

自引率

0.00%

发文量

审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： ■Automation of library and information services ■Storage and retrieval of all forms of electronic information ■Delivery of information to end users ■Database design and management ■Techniques for storing and distributing information ■Networking and communications technology ■The Internet ■User interface design ■Procurement of systems ■User training and support ■System evaluation