Title: Vanishing act
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.
Subjects: Evaluation, Citation of electronic information resources