Thursday, July 05, 2007

Link rot irony

What do you get when you do a search on Google Scholar for the paper titled

Runaway Train: Problems of Permanence, Accessibility, and Stability in the Use of Web Sources in Law Review Citations

(a paper about how problematic link rot is) and then try to access the link? Irony at its best. smile

Posted by Frank McCown at 7/05/2007 04:14:00 PM
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  1. .8/01/2007 6:34 PM

    Hi,

    I got tired of broken links on my websites. And I got tired of finding link rot everywhere on the web. So I created a free website for archiving links. This service is designed to prevent link-rot. In other words you will be able to create permanent links to other websites that will not change or go away once you create them.

    http://www.stayboystay.com


    This should help prevent this problem in the future.


    Lars

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  2. Frank McCown8/08/2007 7:27 AM

    Lars,

    Looks like you've developed another web archiving service. There are several of those around like Hanzo:web and Webcitation.org.

    I was wondering how your service is different from its predecessors?

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  3. Gunther Eysenbach MD MPH11/24/2007 5:03 PM

    Stayboystay is indeed a brazen attempt to plagiarize what WebCite http://www.webcitation.org is doing since 1998. WebCite is a de-facto standard used by hundreds of academics and journals, for example Biomed Central journals (see e.g. http://blogs.openaccesscentral.com/blogs/bmcblog/entry/webcite_links_provide_access_to ).

    ORIGINAL (http://www.webcitation.org):
    "WebCite® is an archiving system for webreferences (cited webpages and websites), which can be used by authors, editors, and publishers of scholarly papers and books, to ensure that cited webmaterial will remain available to readers in the future. If cited webreferences in journal articles, books etc. are not archived, future readers may encounter a "404 File Not Found" error when clicking on a cited URL.

    A WebCite® reference is an archived webcitation, and rather than linking to the live website (which can and probably will disappear in the future)".

    STOLEN (http://www.stayboystay.com/aboutus.php, archived at http://www.webcitation.org/5TbFbyVLi )
    "StayBoyStay.Com is an archiving system for webreferences (cited web pages and websites), which can be used by anybody to ensure that cited web material will remain available to readers in the future. If cited webreferences sare not archived, future readers may encounter a "404 File Not Found" error when clicking on a URL. A StayBoyStay.com reference is an archived web citation, and rather than linking to the live website (which can and probably will disappear in the future).

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