Web Directory

» A Longitudinal Study of Web Pages Continued: A Consideration of Document Persistence
   Wallace Koehler, Valdosta State University, presents the results of his research, and an overview on existing literature. Published in Information Research, Vol. 9 No. 2, January 2004.
   http://www.informationr.net/ir/9-2/paper174.html

» All Things Web: How Much Is Too Much?
   Results of the third State of the Web Survey (SOWS), an automated web survey that tracks page size and linkrot on the WWW.
   http://www.pantos.org/atw/35654.html

» Altertbox: Fighting Linkrot
   Jakob Nielsen defines the phaenomenon linkrot, and encourages site owners to fight it by reducing outbound linkrot and securing stability of incoming links.
   http://www.useit.com/alertbox/980614.html

» Cool URIs Don't Change
   An appeal for stability, and advice how to achieve it, by Tim Berners-Lee.
   http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

» Link Rot
   Overview article from Wikipedia.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_rot

» Linkrot and Legal Research
   An overview on results of recent research by Ted Tjaden.
   http://www.slaw.ca/2005/08/03/linkrot-and-legal-research/

» The Availability and Persistence of Web References in D-Lib Magazine
   A study by Frank McCown et al., presented at the 5th International Web Archiving Workshop.
   http://www.iwaw.net/05/papers/iwaw05-mccown1.pdf