Zittrain, Albert & Lessig 2014 — Perma.cc / link rot in legal scholarship

Zittrain, J., Albert, K. & Lessig, L. "Perma: Scoping and Addressing the Problem of Link and Reference Rot in Legal Citations." Harvard Law Review / Harvard Public Law Working Paper, 2014.

Key fact: >70% of URLs cited across a sample drawn from the Harvard Law Review and two other Harvard journals between 1996 and 2012 no longer resolve to the originally cited content.

Use: E-0040, C-0023.

Original whitepaper reference: [54]