Raising the dead: Recovery of decayed online citations

American Communication Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Dimitrova, Daniela V ^a   Bugeja, Michael ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Google; Internet research; Library research; Online archives; Online citations; Wayback machine

Indexed keywords

EID: 38549147510     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15325865     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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