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100 1 Bugeja, Michael J.
245 10 Vanishing act :|bthe erosion of online footnotes and
implications for scholarship in the digital age /|cby
Michael Bugeja and Daniela V. Dimitrova.
260 Duluth, Minn. :|bLitwin Books,|c2010.
300 1 online resource (86 p.)
500 Includes index.
505 0 Extinct citations, missing links and other bibliographical
wonders -- Internet's coming of age : the stone age, that
is, as far as citation -- A brief history of footnote
flight -- The half-life of online footnotes -- What, in
fact, causes footnotes to vanish? -- Opinions versus
reality : journal editors and vanishing footnotes -- An
online world as thin as it is wide.
520 Since 2003, authors Michael Bugeja and Daniela Dimitrova
(Iowa State University of Science and Technology) have
been at the forefront of research on the erosion of online
footnotes and its implication for scholarship. Their
research has been showcased in The Chronicle of Higher
Education and a number of academic journals, including The
Serials Librarian, Portals: Libraries and the Academy, New
Media and Society and Journalism and Mass Communication
Educator, among others. Their book documents the vanishing
act in flagship communication journals and provides
readers with methods to mitigate the effect.
650 0 Citation of electronic information resources|xEvaluation.
700 1 Dimitrova, Daniela V.
856 40 |uhttp://gse.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/litwin/
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856 40 |uhttp://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/9781936117147
