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WEBCITE
WebCite
WebCite is a free tool for scholarly authors to "webcite" webpages which have previously been archived, to allow readers in the future (10, 20 50, 100 years) to retrieve what has been cited by the author. The tool is used mainly by scholarly authors, journal editors and publishers to permanently archive "on-demand" and retrieve cited Internet references (Eysenbach and Trudel, 2005).
WebCiting
"Webciting" is the process of citing a webpage or website with prior archiving to prevent linkrot, using a tool like WebCite. Rather than relying on a crawler who archives pages in a "random" fashion, authors who want to cite webpages in a scholarly article can first initiate the archiving process using a bookmarklet or by simply entering the URL which needs to be archived in the WebCite interface. They then cite - instead of or in addition to the original URL - a WebCite address, handing over a specific identifier which identifies the snapshot of the page they meant to cite.
Web archivists generally archive all types of web content including HTML web pages, style sheets, JavaScript, images, and video. They also archive metadata about the collected resources such as access time, MIME type, and content length. This metadata is useful in establishing authenticity and provenance of the archived collection.
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