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reference rot: a standalone construct

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Digital preservation

the combined problem of cited web links that stop working and of linked content that changes, measured in scholarly articles.

In digital preservation, reference rot refers to the combined problem of cited web links that stop working and of linked content that changes, measured in scholarly articles. This meaning comes from Klein (2014) in PLoS ONE.[1]

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preservation4 fields · 9 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs reference3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs stop2 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

Klein, M., Van de Sompel, H., Sanderson, R., Shankar, H., Balakireva, L., Zhou, K., & Tobin, R. (2014). Scholarly Context Not Found: One in Five Articles Suffers from Reference Rot. PLoS ONE, 9(12), e115253. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0115253

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