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2015/05/11

The trouble with reference rot

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Computer scientists are trying to shore up broken links in the scholarly literature. Nature presents a brief summary on the achievements and the ambitions of the “Hiberlink project”, a study which investigates how web links in online scientific and other academic articles fail to lead to the resources that were originally referenced.