A cross disciplinary study of link decay and the effectiveness of mitigation techniques

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 14, Issue SUPPL.14, 2013, Pages

  Hennessey, Jason ^a   Ge, Steven X ^a  

^a South Dakota State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS-DISCIPLINARY; INTERNET ARCHIVE; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; MITIGATION TECHNIQUES; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOP LEVEL DOMAINS; UNIVERSAL RESOURCE LOCATORS;

INTERNET;

WEBSITES;

COMPUTER PROGRAM; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; INFORMATION CENTER; INTERNET; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; TIME; ARTICLE;

ARCHIVES; BIBLIOGRAPHY AS TOPIC; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INTERNET; PUBLISHING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84885367936     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-14-S14-S5     Document Type: Article

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