Hey, Where'd My Internet Reference Go?

The University of Colorado Health Sciences Center has done a study of Internet references cites in medical journals, and has discovered what many of us know much to our chagrin; Internet references can disappear very quicky. " Internet references accounted for 2.6 percent of all references in a sample of more than 1000 articles published between 2000 and 2003 in three journals: The New England Journal of Medicine, The Journal of the American Medical Association and Science. In articles up to only 27 months old, 13 percent of Internet references were inactive, making substantial amounts of information unavailable."

I would point you to the Health Sciences Center release about this, but at this moment -- ironically enough - http://www.uchsc.edu/news/2003/1030-InternetRef.shtml is giving me a 404 error. You can read the press release about the study at AScribe newswire: http://tinyurl.com/taaa .

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