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Asian Journal of Information Science and Technology (AJIST)

Editor Dr. Niran Adetoro
Print ISSN : 2231-6108
Frequency : Quarterly

A Study of Availability and Recovery of URLs in Library and Information Science Scholarly Journals

Author : B. Niveditha and Mallinath Kumbar
Volume 10 No.1 January-June 2020 pp 51-61

Abstract

The present study examines the availability and recovery of web references cited in scholarly journals selected based on their high impact factor published between 2008 and 2017.  A PHP script was used to crawl the Uniform Resource Locators (URL) collected from the references.  A total of 5720 articles were downloaded and 237418 references were extracted.  A total of 33512 URLs were checked for their availability.  Further the lexical features of URLs like file extension, path depth, character length and top-level domain was determined. The research findings indicated that out of 33512 web references, 20218 contained URLs, DOIs were found in 12799 references and 495 references contained arXiv or WOS identifier.  It was found that 29760 URLs were accessible and the remaining 3752 URLs were missing. Most errors were due to HTTP 404 error code (Not found error).  The study also tried to recover the inaccessible URLs through Time Travel.  Almost 60.55% of inaccessible URLs were archived in various web archives.  The findings of the study will be helpful to authors, publishers, and editorial staff to ensure that web references will be accessible in future.

Keywords

References, web references, URLs, DOIs, HTTP error, PHP, Time Travel

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Asian Journal of Information Science and Technology (AJIST) a Multidisciplinary Library and Information Science Journal is a refereed International Journal and publish from India. This Journal encompasses all branches of Library and Information Sciences and its sub – disciplines like Library Management; Information Systems & Services, Information Processing & Retrieval; Information Sources & Services; Community Information System, Scientometrics & Informetrics, IR Theory, Knowledge Organization; Information processing & retrieval, Classification, Preservation & Conservation, Information Management, Library classification, Information sources, Systems and Services, Computer Application in Library; Digital Library; Information Systems; Bibliographic Control, etc.

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The present study examines the availability and recovery of web references cited in scholarly journals selected based on their high impact factor published between 2008 and 2017.  A PHP script was used to crawl the Uniform Resource Locators (URL) collected from the references.  A total of 5720 articles were downloaded and 237418 references were extracted.  A total of 33512 URLs were checked for their availability.  Further the lexical features of URLs like file extension, path depth, character length and top-level domain was determined. The research findings indicated that out of 33512 web references, 20218 contained URLs, DOIs were found in 12799 references and 495 references contained arXiv or WOS identifier.  It was found that 29760 URLs were accessible and the remaining 3752 URLs were missing. Most errors were due to HTTP 404 error code (Not found error).  The study also tried to recover the inaccessible URLs through Time Travel.  Almost 60.55% of inaccessible URLs were archived in various web archives.  The findings of the study will be helpful to authors, publishers, and editorial staff to ensure that web references will be accessible in future.

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Department of Library, RAK Medical & Health Sciences University, United Arab Emirates
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Department of Library, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
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Department of Library and Information Sciences, University of Khartoum, Sudan
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Department of Library & Information Science, University of Karachi, Karachi
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DLIS, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
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    Department of library and Information Science, Tai Solarin University, Nigeria
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    Department of Library, RAK Medical & Health Sciences University, United Arab Emirates
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    Department of Library & Information Science, University of Balochistan, Quetta
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    Department of Library, RAK Medical & Health Sciences University, United Arab Emirates
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    Department of Library, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
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    Department of Library and Information Sciences, University of Khartoum, Sudan
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    Department of Library & Information Science, University of Karachi, Karachi
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    DLIS, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
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