Persistent URIs Must Be Used To Be Persistent
Digital Libraries
2016-03-01 v1
Abstract
We quantify the extent to which references to papers in scholarly literature use persistent HTTP URIs that leverage the Digital Object Identifier infrastructure. We find a significant number of references that do not, speculate why authors would use brittle URIs when persistent ones are available, and propose an approach to alleviate the problem.
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@article{arxiv.1602.09102,
title = {Persistent URIs Must Be Used To Be Persistent},
author = {Herbert Van de Sompel and Martin Klein and Shawn M. Jones},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.09102},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
2 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication at WWW 2016 (poster track)