Finding the unfound: Recovery of missing URLs through Internet Archive
- Kumar, Vinay
- B T, Sampath Kumar
Publication date
October 2017
DOI Publisher
CSIR-National Institute of Science Communication and Policy Research (NIScPR) Language
EnglishAbstract
The study investigated the accessibility and permanency of citations containing URLs in the articles published in DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology journal during 2006-2015. A total of 2133 URL citations were identified out of which 823 were found to be incorrect or missing. HTTP-404 was the most common error message associated with the missing URLs. The study also tried to recover the incorrect or URL citations using Internet Archive and recovered a total of 484 (58.81%) missing URL citations
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