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My thanks to Associate Editor, Terry Brooks for drawing my attention to WebCite, a newish service that fills a major gap for electronic journal editors - the problem of the dead link. WebCite will look up a non-journal Web page that you have referenced, cache it and give you a new, permanent URL so that the page is retrieved from the cache, rather than from the original source. Many news pages, personal home pages and company pages disappear from the Web or are moved to undiscoverable locations and are, to all intents and purposes, 'dead'. I am asking all authors of papers accepted by Information Research to run their paper through WebCite if it contains links to the kinds of Web pages that tend to 'die'. Information on how to do it can now be found on the 'Instructions for Authors' page: http://informationr.net/ir/author1.html#webcite Apologies to those who may receive this notice through more than one discussion list. Professor T.D. Wilson, PhD, Hon.PhD Publisher/Editor in Chief Information Research InformationR.net e-mail: [log in to unmask] Web site: http://InformationR.net/ ___________________________________________________