[Taxacom] Fwd: WebCite - archiving system for webreferences

[Neal Evenhuis]

>
>Apologies for cross-posting--
>
>I thought this little tidbit recently received from our librarians 
>might be useful information.
>
>--Neal
>
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>>Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:59:52 +0100
>>From:  Mark Perkins lists <lists at markperkins.info>
>>To: ifla-l at infoserv.inist.fr
>>Subject: [IFLA-L] WebCite -  archiving system for webreferences
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>>http://www.webcitation.org/index
>>
>>Background
>>
>>Authors increasingly cite webpages in medical and scientific
>>publications,
>>which can "disappear" overnight. The problem of unstable webcitations
>>has
>>recently been recently referred to as an issue "calling for an immediate
>>response" by publishers and authors.
>>What is WebCiteR?
>>
>>WebCiteR 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 WebCiteR reference is an archived webcitation, and rather than linking
>>to
>>the live website (which can and probably will disappear in the future),
>>authors of scholarly works will link to the archived WebCiteR copy on
>>webcitation.org.
>>How do I use WebCiteR as an author to archive webpages I want to cite?
>>
>>WebCiteR is an entirely free service for authors who want to cite
>>webmaterial, regardless of what publication they are writing for (even
>>if
>>the journal/publisher authors are writing for are not yet listed as
>>members.
>>Membership only means some sort of formal agreement with a publisher).
>>We
>>ask, however, to use WebCiteR primarily in the context of scholarly
>>publications.
>>
>>The author of a citing manuscript can:
>>
>>     * Either manually initiate the archiving of a single cited webpage
>>(by
>>using either the WebCite bookmarklet or the archive page) and manually
>>insert a citation to the permanently archived webdocument on
>>webcitation.org
>>in his manuscript, or;
>>     * Upload an entire citing manuscript to the WebCite server via the
>>comb
>>page, which initiates the WebCiteR tool to comb through the manuscript
>>and
>>to archive all cited non-journal URLs. The WebCiteR software also
>>replaces
>>all URLs in the manuscript with a link to the permanently archived
>>webdocument on webcitation.org.
>>
>>How can I use WebCiteR as an editor?
>>
>>If you are a journal editor, publisher, or copyeditor, the first thing
>>you
>>should do is to insert a note in your "Instructions for authors" asking
>>your
>>authors to use webcitation.org to permanently archive all cited webpages
>>and
>>websites, and to cite the archived copy rather than the original link,
>>which
>>may be "dead" in a few weeks, months, or years.
>>
>>Secondly, editors/copyeditors should initiate the archiving of cited
>>webpages (see instructions above "How to use WebCiteR as an author") and
>>replace all webcitations in a manuscript with links to the archived
>>copy,
>>before the manuscript is published.
>>
>>Thirdly, please notify us that you are using WebCiteR -- you will become
>>a
>>member of the WebCiteR consortium (which is free) by filling in the
>>form.
>>How can I use WebCiteR as a publisher?
>>
>>Contact us to become a partner in the WebCiteR consortium by filling in
>>the
>>form.
>>
>>Ask your editors to instruct their authors and copyeditors to cache all
>>cited URLs "prospectively" before submission or at least during the
>>copyediting process. Talk to us if you would like to submit XML files
>>(for
>>us to archive cited webpages automatically), or if you would like to
>>have
>>back-issues of your journal(s) analyzed for webcitations and the cited
>>documents "retrospectively" archived.
>>
>>Except for archived content, this site is licensed under a
>>Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
>>
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