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Link Rot
Every CitationLab post tagged link rot. A small collection for now; it grows as the topic recurs.
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Link rot and DOI rot
Every other defect in a bibliography is something you did. Link rot happens to a document sitting still. What decays fastest, the four ways a permanent identifier stops working, and when to re-check.
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Websites as references: access dates and archives
A DOI names a work; a URL names a place. Why access dates exist, when to archive a source, why a mirror copy is not the paper, and what a check can and cannot tell you about a web reference.