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Cool URIs Don't Change An appeal for stability, and advice how to achieve it, by Tim Berners-Lee. http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

Link Rot Overview article from Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_rot

The Availability and Persistence of Web References in D-Lib Magazine A study by Frank McCown et al., presented at the 5th International Web Archiving Workshop. [PDF] (September 22, 2005) http://www.iwaw.net/05/papers/iwaw05-mccown1.pdf

Linkrot and Legal Research An overview on results of recent research by Ted Tjaden. (August 3, 2005) http://www.slaw.ca/2005/08/03/linkrot-and-legal-research/

A Longitudinal Study of Web Pages Continued: A Consideration of Document Persistence Wallace Koehler, Valdosta State University, presents the results of his research, and an overview on existing literature. Published in Information Research, Vol. 9 No. 2, January 2004. (January 1, 2004) http://www.informationr.net/ir/9-2/paper174.html

All Things Web: How Much Is Too Much? Results of the third State of the Web Survey (SOWS), an automated web survey that tracks page size and linkrot on the WWW. (May 31, 1999) http://www.pantos.org/atw/35654.html

Altertbox: Fighting Linkrot Jakob Nielsen defines the phaenomenon linkrot, and encourages site owners to fight it by reducing outbound linkrot and securing stability of incoming links. (June 14, 1998) http://www.useit.com/alertbox/980614.html