WebCite
authors increasingly cite webpages and other digital objects on the
Internet, which can "disappear" overnight. In one study published in the
journal
Science, 13% of Internet references in scholarly
articles were inactive after only 27 months. Another problem is that
cited webpages may change, so that readers see something different than
what the citing author saw. The problem of unstable webcitations and the
lack of routine digital preservation of cited digital objects has been
referred to as an issue "calling for an immediate response" by
publishers and authors [
1].
An increasing number of editors and publishers ask that authors, when
they cite a webpage, make a local copy of the cited
webpage/webmaterial, and archive the cited URL in a system like WebCite®, to enable readers permanent access to the cited material.
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