Prevalence and inaccessibility of URLs in the biomedical literature

Prevalence and inaccessibility of URLs in the biomedical literature

The World Wide Web is a dynamic environment that does not guarantee permanent access or content stability. We determined the prevalence of URLs in forthcoming, biomedical papers when they are first released in MEDLINE(R) and prospectively evaluated the rate of inaccessible URLs during a 19-day perio...

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Veröffentlicht in:AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings 2006, Vol.2006, p.1019-1019
Hauptverfasser: Madani, Sina, Carnevale, Randy J, Duda, Stephany, Feyder, Michael, Aronsky, Dominik
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Sprache:eng
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Bibliometrics
Information Storage and Retrieval
Internet
Libraries, Digital
MEDLINE
Periodicals as Topic
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Zusammenfassung:The World Wide Web is a dynamic environment that does not guarantee permanent access or content stability. We determined the prevalence of URLs in forthcoming, biomedical papers when they are first released in MEDLINE(R) and prospectively evaluated the rate of inaccessible URLs during a 19-day period. Among 96,153 references from 2,614 forthcoming papers (739 journals) the prevalence of URLs was 0.59%. The rate of inaccessible URLs was 12.4% when first available to the public community.
ISSN:1559-4076