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WebCite – The Answer to Disappearing URL References

Posted on October 1, 2008 by jimskcc

WebCite® is the answer to a major woe for anyone who’s ever published a web reference only to find that the URL is no longer valid. The webpage has been moved or deleted, and clicking the link brings up an error message.

WebCite® is a simple, straightforward archiving service. It’s a member of the International Internet Preservation Consortium, and its services are free. Here’s how it works: (1) Log in to the submission form. (2) Paste the URL you want to archive. (3) Paste your email address. (4) Click on “Submit.” (5) On the next page, copy the reference info. (6) Paste it into your website. That’s it!

Clicking on the link, the reader is immediately taken to an archived copy of the page. If the original is deleted or moved, the WebCite link remains valid and displays an exact copy of the web source. The only way you’ll know that this is the archived version is the WebCite header that runs across the top.

You don’t have to sign up or register for the service. It’s completely on-demand.

If you want, you can add more information, or what they call “Metadata,” which is then added to your citation for a more robust reference. Here are the fields on the form. The first two are required; the remainder are optional:

URL to Archive [url]:
Your (citing author) E-mail Address [email]:

Metadata (optional)
These are Dublin Core elements. Entering these will help you to correctly cite the URL. Any information here will take precedence over metadata extracted from the cited webpage.
Title [title]:
Author(s) [author]:
Cited Author’s E-mail [authoremail]:
Publisher :
Date [date]:
Subject Keywords [subject]:

The link can be inserted as is or added to a reference or works-cited entry, providing access to a permanent copy of the source. Here’s an example using this blog post, including the basic and optional metadata:

Shimabukuro, James. WebCite – The Answer to Disappearing URL References. Windblown Bytes. 2008-10-02. URL:http://windblownbytes.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/webcite-the-answer-to-disappearing-url-references/. Accessed: 2008-10-02. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/5bGO5SzaR)

[Added 10.2.08] Here’s a caveat from MaryAnne Gobble, Innovate’s Managing Editor: “Just one note you may want to alert your faculty to: It only archives single pages, so articles spread over multiple pages have to be archived a page at a time. (The better answer — the one we use — is to archive the ‘printer-friendly’ version or the pdf.) Also, a lot of subscription resources, even those for which subscription is free, reject crawlers and so won’t archive. Still, it does work for just about everything else — )”

[Source for this post: See the reference that's attached to "Innovate-Ideagora: Introducing a New Feature in Innovate," in Innovate: Journal of Online Education (Oct-Nov 2008).]

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