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Link rot for academic sources is ridiculous. Several of the links to academic paper PDFs are broken. There really should be a better way of dealing with this. I
by eigenvalue 7y ago
Link rot for academic sources is ridiculous. Several of the links to academic paper PDFs are broken. There really should be a better way of dealing with this. I guess university IT departments remove user accounts when a professor or researcher leaves the school, and that results in deletion of all files on their personal academic sites. Would be nice if there was an accepted, standard way of "rolling over" these files to the next school where the person ends up.
- throw0101a 7y agoI think that's why DOIs were created: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier Also: archive.org
- Breza 7y agoDOIs and complete citations go a long way toward addressing this problem.
- sampo 7y agoI think the main problem is the posted document referring to sources without giving even the title of the papers it refers to. Only a link, nothing else. This a very non-standard way to use references.
- dredmorbius 7y agoA practice I very much wish would go away, for precisely these reasons. I've taken flack for writing footnoted HN & G+ posts, even Mastodon toots. I can take the flack. Bibliographic citations emerged for reasons. Those reasons. remain.
- vngzs 7y agoHere are a couple of the broken links: "EARLY DEPOSIT BANKING", Meir Kohn: https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.dartmouth.edu/dist/6/1163/files/2017/03/99-03.pdf https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.dartmouth.edu/dist/6/116... "Bagehot was a Shadow Banker: Shadow Banking, Central Banking, and the Future of Global Finance": https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2232016 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2232016
- jonathanstray 7y agoThanks for this. I have updated the broken links. While I do appreciate the role of a proper citation, I'm reluctant to do it for blog posts (as opposed to my actual papers) both because it's time consuming and because for most people, links are a more natural and readable format.