Disappearing Act: Persistence and Attrition of Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) in an Open Access Medical Journal

Aragudige Nagaraja; Shine A. Joseph; Hyla H. Polen; Kevin A. Clauson

Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems Vol. 45, No. 1 (2011) pp. 98–106

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to assess and catalogue the magnitude of URL attrition in a high-impact, open access (OA) general medical journal. Design/methodology/approach: All "Public Library of Science Medicine (PLoS Medicine)" articles for...