Scholars Note 'Decay' of Citations to Online References

By SCOTT CARLSON

An analysis of citations to Web addresses in scholarly articles on communications studies found that a third of the links were no longer active. The two scholars who conducted the analysis are preparing their findings for publication and coming up with a list of recommendations to stop what they refer to as the decay of online...

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