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The New Yorker reports[1] about how links go stale on the web, and
how this is impacting journals and the like. I thought it might be
interesting to this lot in terms of how and when we cite URLs.
You'll note, I'm only posting a URL about the article, but in a
spate of cruelty, the New Yorker article doesn't have a to the study
they quote, and so I can't claim to be posting about a URL to a URL
;-)<br>
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Here's the relevant quote:<br>
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But a 2013 survey of law- and policy-related publications found
that, at the end of six years, nearly fifty per cent of the URLs
cited in those publications no longer worked. According to a 2014
study conducted at Harvard Law School, “more than 70% of the URLs
within the Harvard Law Review and other journals, and 50% of the
URLs within United States Supreme Court opinions, do not link to
the originally cited information.” </blockquote>
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Eliot<br>
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[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.newyorker.com/?p=2960285&mbid=social_tablet_f">http://www.newyorker.com/?p=2960285&mbid=social_tablet_f</a><br>
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