Software is increasingly crucial to scholarship, yet the visibility and usefulness of software in
the scientific record are in question. Just as with data, the visibility of software in publications …

Informationskompetenz hat sich in den letzten Jahren als wichtiges Teilgebiet des
Bibliothekswesens etabliert. Der vorliegende Text gibt einen einführenden Überblick über …

Increasingly, scholarly articles contain URI references to “web at large” resources including
project web sites, scholarly wikis, ontologies, online debates, presentations, blogs, and …

Web citations have become common in scholarly publications as the amount of online
literature increases. Yet, such links are not persistent and many decay over time, causing …

Background The dynamic, decentralized world-wide-web has become an essential part of
scientific research and communication. Researchers create thousands of web sites every …

Web archiving initiatives exist to collect ephemeral Web content for use by current and future
generations of users. To date, most such initiatives have concentrated on the development …

Purpose Almost two decades after diagnosing the link rot phenomenon, and in spite of the
universal character of the bit rot phenomenon, the need for reminding about these is still …

Objectives: This study examines the problem of decay of uniform resource locators (URLs) in
health care management journals and seeks to determine whether continued availability at …

Do humanists and social scientists face the same problem? This research note marks the
first published attempt to answer that question in any field of the humanities or social …

Study investigates the availability, persistence and half life of URL citations cited in two
Indian LIS journals articles published between 2002 and 2010. This study also investigates …