Recouping the missing web citations in Library Hi-Tech journal

Vinay Kumar, Sampath Kumar

Abstract


The main purpose of the present study is to examine the trend and accessibility of web citations cited in the articles published in in Library Hi-Tech journal. It also intended to know the recovery of missing web citations using Time Travel. A total of 3912 web citations cited in 568 research articles published in Library Hi-Tech journal during 2006-2017. The study used W3C link checker to check the accessibility of web citations. Further, a list of missing web citations was separated. The study has also been made an attempt to recoup the missing web citations using Time Travel. The study found that the average web citations per article are 6.89. The study found that 23.29% of web citations were not accessible and remaining 76.71% of web citations are accessible. The use of Time Travel to recover missing web citations has shown that the Wayback machine was able to recover 60.92% of missing web citations followed by the Library of Congress Web Archive and Bib Alexandria. The findings of the study help authors, web masters, and librarians to understand the missing behavior of web citations cited in LIS scholarly articles and to use methods to recover those missing web citations

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