Durability of online information based on the accessibility of the websites cited in Roczniki Biblioteczne from 1999 to 2016

Abstract

The article deals with the issue of effective striving for constant availability of information published on the Internet in the context of the systems used for this purpose and initiatives that save electronic documents from oblivion. The author attempted to illustrate the considerations regarding the necessity of archiving resources with use of a scientific experiment. As part of it, source material in the form of links placed in footnotes of the content published in the journal Roczniki Biblioteczne (Library yearbooks) in the years 1999‒2016 was analyzed. The experiment allowed the author to check the frequency of quoted digital publications (372 times), the functioning of the links referring to them (63%), as well as the availability of online resources (83%). It shows how important it is to properly archive web content.