Kendra Albert, Larry Lessig and I are finishing up a study of link rot, available at http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=2329161. Link rot is the phenomenon by which material we link to on the distributed Web vanishes or changes beyond recognition over time.  (Wiki discusses link rot here.)  This is a particular problem for academic scholarship, which is increasingly linking … Continue reading Perma: Scoping and addressing the problem of “link rot”