Link rot

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since	2024-06-26
description	Link rot (also called link death, link decay, link breaking, or reference rot) is the phenomenon of hyperlinks tending over time to cease to point to their originally targeted file, web page, or server due to that resource being relocated to a new address or becoming permanently unavailable. A link that no longer points to its target, often called a broken, dead, or orphaned link, is a specific form of dangling pointer.
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Librarians and Link Rot: A Comparative Analysis with Some Methodological Considerations

tyler2003li {{#scite: |reference=tyler2003li |type=journal-article |title=Librarians and Link Rot: A Comparative Analysis with Some Methodological Considerations |authors=David C Tyler;Beth McNeil |journal=portal: Libraries and the Academy |publisher=Project MUSE |issn=1530-7131 |volume=3 |pages=615-632 |doi=10.1353/pla.2003.0098 |year=2003 |retrieved-from=https://doi.org/ |retrieved-on=2024-06-26 }}

A cross disciplinary study of link decay and the effectiveness of mitigation techniques

hennessey2013a {{#scite: |reference=hennessey2013a |type=journal-article |title=A cross disciplinary study of link decay and the effectiveness of mitigation techniques |authors=Jason Hennessey;Steven Xijin Ge |journal=BMC Bioinformatics |publisher=Springer Science and Business Media LLC |issn=1471-2105 |volume=14 |doi=10.1186/1471-2105-14-s14-s5 |year=2013 |retrieved-from=https://doi.org/ |retrieved-on=2024-06-26 }}

URLs Link Rot: Implications for Electronic Publishing

kumar2015ur {{#scite: |reference=kumar2015ur |type=journal-article |title=URLs Link Rot: Implications for Electronic Publishing |authors=D Vinay Kumar;B T Sampath Kumar;D R Parameshwarappa |journal=World Digital Libraries - An International Journal |publisher=The Energy and Resources Institute |issn=0974-567X;0975-7597|+sep=; |volume=8 |doi=10.18329/09757597/2015/8105 |year=2015 |retrieved-from=https://doi.org/ |retrieved-on=2024-06-26 }}

Perma: Scoping and Addressing the Problem of Link and Reference Rot in Legal Citations

zittrain2014pe {{#scite: |reference=zittrain2014pe |type=journal-article |title=Perma: Scoping and Addressing the Problem of Link and Reference Rot in Legal Citations |authors=Jonathan Zittrain;Kendra Albert;Lawrence Lessig |journal=Legal Information Management |publisher=Cambridge University Press (CUP) |issn=1472-6696;1741-2021|+sep=; |volume=14 |pages=88-99 |doi=10.1017/s1472669614000255 |year=2014 |retrieved-from=https://doi.org/ |retrieved-on=2024-06-26 }}

No More 404s

zhou2015no {{#scite: |reference=zhou2015no |type=journal-article |title=No More 404s |subtitle=Predicting Referenced Link Rot in Scholarly Articles for Pro-Active Archiving |authors=Ke Zhou;Claire Grover;Martin Klein;Richard Tobin |journal=Proceedings of the 15th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries |publisher=ACM |doi=10.1145/2756406.2756940 |year=2015 |retrieved-from=https://doi.org/ |retrieved-on=2024-06-26 |acronym=JCDL 2015 }}