Publications by authors named "Harihar Shankar"
Article Synopsis
- Scholarly articles are increasingly referencing dynamic web resources, such as project sites and blogs, to enhance context but this may mislead readers as the content can change over time.
- A study revisiting articles published from 1997 to 2012 found that only about 30% of the referenced web resources had stable snapshots available to compare to current content.
- Over 75% of these web resources showed significant content drift since the original reference, highlighting concerns about the reliability of web-based scholarly information.
The emergence of the web has fundamentally affected most aspects of information communication, including scholarly communication. The immediacy that characterizes publishing information to the web, as well as accessing it, allows for a dramatic increase in the speed of dissemination of scholarly knowledge. But, the transition from a paper-based to a web-based scholarly communication system also poses challenges.
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