Recovery of vanished URLs: Comparing the efficiency of Internet Archive and Google

Kumar, D. Vinay; Kumar, B. T. Sampath

doi:10.22452/mjlis.vol22no2.3

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“…Their study revealed that a total of 2,477 URLs (23.81%) were cited in 406 research articles, containing a total of 10,400 citations, out of which 1,275 URLs (51.47%) were accessible, whereas 1,202 URLs (49.53%) were inaccessible, 500 error being the prominent error code associated with the missing Web citations. Kumar and Kumar (2017) investigated the accessibility of URLs of citations in the articles in the DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology during 2006–2015. A total of 2,133 URL citations were identified out of which 823 (38.58%) were not accessible and HTTP-404 was the most common error associated with the missing URLs (643, 78.13%).…”

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The decay and persistence of web references

Loan

Shah

2020

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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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The decay and persistence of web references

Loan

Shah

2020

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“…While this study established that, after a three-year period, 50% of URL citations from 31 journals could not be accessed (Germain, 2000), a later work reported that almost 17% of the URL references from all the articles published by PLoS Medicine between 2005-2007 were non-operational (Nagajara et al, 2011). Due to the dynamics of the web, several other studies also found a high proportion of URL citations that were not accessible through the web browsers (Sampath Kumar and Vinay Kumar, 2013;Vinay Kumar and Sampath Kumar, 2017;Manjunatha et al, 2020;Shanthakumari, 2021). As the URL refers to the home address of a journal, any changes in its web architecture will affect the accessibility of a particular publication (Ansorge, 2023).…”

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Inconsistency in the registration of the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) of articles on Web of Science and Scopus

Krauskopf,

Salgado

2023

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Almost 25 years ago, the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) was implemented with the purpose of providing a unique and persistent form of document identification. As DOIs can be assigned to any object, journals rapidly adopted their use as it eases the process of identifying a specific document, thus increasing its visibility. However, while studying the impact of papers published by Chilean researchers in disciplines related to Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities, we noticed that some journals published a considerable proportion of documents without DOIs. Thus, we questioned if this was due to a lack of DOI adoption by these journals or if it was a database processing error. Our findings indicate that while most journals have adopted the use of DOI for article-type documents, many of the Web of Science and Scopus records do not include this information. To overcome this issue, databases need to ensure the accuracy and consistency of their data, while the editorial management team of each journal ought to confirm that all the metadata from their articles has been properly registered by these databases. Undoubtedly, the use of DOI benefits all academics as it facilitates the discoverability and retrieval of the published articles.

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Recovery of vanished URLs: Comparing the efficiency of Internet Archive and Google

Abstract: This article examines the vanishing nature of URLs and recovery of vanished URLs through Internet

Cited by 2 publications

References 19 publications

The decay and persistence of web references

The decay and persistence of web references

Inconsistency in the registration of the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) of articles on Web of Science and Scopus

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