The Problem
Authors increasingly cite webpages and other digital objects on the Internet, which can "disappear" overnight. In one study published in the journal Science, 13% of Internet references in scholarly articles were inactive after only 27 months. Another problem is that cited webpages may change, so that readers see something different than what the citing author saw. The problem of unstable webcitations and the lack of routine digital preservation of cited digital objects has been referred to as an issue "calling for an immediate response" by publishers and authors [1].
An increasing number of editors and publishers ask that authors, when they cite a webpage, make a local copy of the cited webpage/webmaterial, and archive the cited URL in a system like WebCite®, to enable readers permanent access to the cited material.
K. Avrachenkov, V. Dobrynin, D. Nemirovsky, S. Pham, and E. Smirnova. SIGIR '08: Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, page 873--874. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2008)
C. Scholz, M. Atzmueller, and G. Stumme. 5th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media: Mining Big Data in Social Media at the 23rd International World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2014, Seoul, South Korea, (2014)
C. Scholz, M. Atzmueller, and G. Stumme. 5th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media: Mining Big Data in Social Media at the 23rd International World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2014, Seoul, South Korea, (2014)
J. Kamps, and M. Koolen. WSDM '09: Proceedings of the Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, page 232--241. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2009)