Rotten but not forgotten: Weeding and maintenance of URLs for electronic resources in the Ohio State University online catalog

Serials Librarian

Volumn 53, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 163-177

  Strader, C Rockelle ^a   Hamill, Farrell D ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic resources; Link rot; Uniform resource locators; URL links; URL maintenance

Indexed keywords

EID: 42949089828     PISSN: 0361526X     EISSN: 15411095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J123v53n01_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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