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Title: Finding the unfound: Recovery of missing URLs through Internet Archive
Authors: Kumar, Vinay D
Kumar, B. T. Sampath
Keywords: URL citations;Missing URLs;HTTP errors;Internet archive
Issue Date: Sep-2017
Publisher: NISCAIR-CSIR, India
Abstract: 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.
Page(s): 165-171
ISSN: 0975-2404 (Online); 0972-5423 (Print)
Appears in Collections:ALIS Vol.64(3) [September 2017]

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