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<p>Content pass: encyclopedic seed/expansion</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&#039;&#039;&#039;Reference rot&#039;&#039;&#039; describes the decay of citations to web resources through [[Link rot]] (the URL dies) or [[Content drift]] (the URL lives but no longer says the same thing). The term is common in library science and scholarly-communication research.<br /> <br /> ==Defences==<br /> Persistent identifiers, repository deposits, and routine archiving of cited URLs reduce reference rot. Journals and wikis increasingly encourage or automate deposits into systems such as the [[Wayback Machine]].<br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> * [[Citation]]<br /> * [[Persistent identifier]]<br /> * [[Pew Research Center]] studies of disappearing pages (see [[Link rot]])<br /> <br /> ==Sources==<br /> * Scholarly literature on reference rot (Hiberlink and follow-on studies).<br /> * Pew Research Center (2024) on inaccessible webpages.<br /> <br /> [[Category:Sources]]<br /> [[Category:Web archiving]]<br /> [[Category:Concepts]]</div>

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