Vanishing act
Subtitle: the erosion of online footnotes and implications for scholarship in the digital age
By: by Michael Bugeja and Daniela V. Dimitrova.
Contributors: Dimitrova, Daniela V.
Publisher: Litwin Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Duluth, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 86
ISBN-13: 9781936117147
Subjects: Citation of electronic information resources -- Evaluation
Description: The footnote safeguarded scientific method and peer review upon which academe is based, from papers by first-year and transfer students to books by postdocs and professors. Bugeja and Dimitrova report on the erosion of online footnotes and its implication for scholarship. They document the vanishing act in flagship communication journals and provide readers with methods to mitigate the effect. From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Extinct citations, missing links and other bibliographical wonders; title: Internet's coming of age : the stone age, that is, as far as citation; title: A brief history of footnote flight; title: The half-life of online footnotes; title: What, in fact, causes footnotes to vanish?; title: Opinions versus reality : journal editors and vanishing footnotes; title: An online world as thin as it is wide.