URLs: Uniform Resource Locators or Unreliable Resource Locators

Abstract

As the use of citing electronic World Wide Web sites grows, the question arises as to whether this practice has scholarly limitations due to the fact that uniform resource locators (URLs) often become inaccessible. This research studies the accessibility of sixty-four URLs cited in thirty-one academic journal articles. Results of this longitudinal study found an increasing decline in the availability of URL citations.