Alan Schroeder, Jr., The Legend of Lost Links, Darwin, June 2004. Excerpt: "To most of us, inactive or incorrect URLs are nothing new, as are typographical errors within print footnotes and missing electronic documents. However, increasingly for undergraduates and professional researchers like Robert Dellavalle [who has studied this problem], websites are primary resources. For institutions receiving billions in government contracts and grants based on past research, success is a vested interest in maintaining integrity....Expect URLs to continue to disappear with no explanation. And expect to see a lot of conflicting and duplicative research."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/11/2004 09:12:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
