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The decay and failures of web references

Published: 01 January 2003 Publication History

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Attempting to determine how quickly archival information becomes outdated.

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 46, Issue 1
January 2003
92 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/602421
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