Everything, for ever? the preservation of South African websites for future research and scholarship

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 39-48

  Lor, Peter Johan ^c   Britz, Johannes ^b   Watermeyer, Henry ^a  

^a Box 891142   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Electronic publishing; Ethics; Legal deposit; Preservation; South Africa; Web archiving; Websites; World wide web

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RAW MATERIALS;

ETHICS; LEGAL DEPOSIT; SOUTH AFRICA; WEB ARCHIVING;

WEBSITES;

EID: 32944469808     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551506059221     Document Type: Article

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