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Author Bugeja, Michael J.
Title Vanishing act : the erosion of online footnotes and implications for scholarship in the digital age / by Michael Bugeja and Daniela V. Dimitrova.
Publication Info Duluth, Minn. : Litwin Books, 2010.



Descript 1 online resource (86 p.)
Note Includes index.
Contents 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.
Note 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.
ISBN 9781936117147 (e-book)
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Author Bugeja, Michael J.
Subject Citation of electronic information resources -- Evaluation.
Alt author Dimitrova, Daniela V.
Descript 1 online resource (86 p.)
Note Includes index.
Contents 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.
Note 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.
ISBN 9781936117147 (e-book)
Author Bugeja, Michael J.
Subject Citation of electronic information resources -- Evaluation.
Alt author Dimitrova, Daniela V.

Subject Citation of electronic information resources -- Evaluation.
Descript 1 online resource (86 p.)
Note Includes index.
Contents 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.
Note 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.
Alt author Dimitrova, Daniela V.
ISBN 9781936117147 (e-book)

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