Dellavalle Robert P, Hester Eric J, Heilig Lauren F, Drake Amanda L, Kuntzman Jeff W, Graber Marla, Schilling Lisa M
Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Denver, CO 80220, USA.
Science. 2003 Oct 31;302(5646):787-8. doi: 10.1126/science.1088234.
The use of Internet references in academic literature is common, and Internet references are frequently inaccessible. The extent of Internet referencing and Internet reference activity in medical or scientific publications was systematically examined in more than 1000 articles published between 2000 and 2003 in the New England Journal of Medicine, The Journal of the American Medical Association, and Science. Internet references accounted for 2.6% of all references (672/25548) and in articles 27 months old, 13% of Internet references were inactive. Publishers, librarians, and readers need to reassess policies, archiving systems, and other resources for addressing Internet reference attrition to prevent further information loss.
在学术文献中使用互联网参考文献很常见，但互联网参考文献常常无法获取。我们系统地调查了2000年至2003年期间发表在《新英格兰医学杂志》《美国医学会杂志》和《科学》上的1000多篇文章中互联网参考文献的引用程度和互联网参考活动情况。互联网参考文献占所有参考文献的2.6%（672/25548），在发表27个月的文章中，13%的互联网参考文献已失效。出版商、图书馆员和读者需要重新评估政策、存档系统及其他资源，以应对互联网参考信息的流失，防止进一步的信息丢失。
