Aug
28
Scholarly journals should use "Archived on" instead of "Accessed on"
Publishing habits changes very slowly, too slowly. The whole industry is incredibly inert, which can lead to severe frustration as it did for me. But sometimes small changes can do so much.
Linkrot, the phenomenon that URLs are not persistent, has been studied, including the in scholarly settings (see 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2014, 2015, 2000, 2021, and probably many more). Indeed, scholarly publishers started introducing the following: URLs should be accompanied with an "accessed on" statement. Indeed, you can find this in many bibliographic formatting standards.
Indeed, this must change, and we already have a solution since 1996: the Internet Archive (tho the archive goes back much longer). I call all publishers to change their "Accessed on" to "Archived on".
Linkrot, the phenomenon that URLs are not persistent, has been studied, including the in scholarly settings (see 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2014, 2015, 2000, 2021, and probably many more). Indeed, scholarly publishers started introducing the following: URLs should be accompanied with an "accessed on" statement. Indeed, you can find this in many bibliographic formatting standards.
Indeed, this must change, and we already have a solution since 1996: the Internet Archive (tho the archive goes back much longer). I call all publishers to change their "Accessed on" to "Archived on".
