[Esip-preserve] Fwd: bit rot

[Curt Tilmes]

FYI from Brian -- nice article...

"For most of the Supreme Court’s history, its citations have been to 
static, permanent sources, typically books. Those citations allowed 
lawyers and scholars to find, understand and assess the court’s evidence 
and reasoning.

Since 1996, though, justices have cited materials found on the Internet 
555 times, the study found. Those citations are very often ephemeral.

“It is disturbing that even at the Supreme Court, where creating and 
citing precedent is of the utmost importance, citations often fail to 
point the researcher to the authority on which the court based its 
decision,” Raizel Liebler and June Liebert, librarians at the John 
Marshall Law School in Chicago, wrote in a second recent look at the 
topic, “Something Rotten in the State of Legal Citation.” It was 
published in The Yale Journal of Law and Technology."


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Subject: bit rot
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:13:21 -0400
From: Brian Duggan <bduggan at usgcrp.gov>

Interesting NYT article today; some things to think about
for publication links (without DOIs) :

 
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/24/us/politics/in-supreme-court-opinions-clicks-that-lead-nowhere.html

Brian