{"id":291,"date":"2004-05-27T13:18:30","date_gmt":"2004-05-27T17:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/2004\/05\/27\/journal-rot-we-kid-you-not\/"},"modified":"2012-05-07T15:33:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T19:33:35","slug":"journal-rot-we-kid-you-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/2004\/05\/27\/journal-rot-we-kid-you-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Journal rot.. (we kid you not&#8230;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a209'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>George Porter of Caltech writes an extensive commentary on the fleating<br \/>\nnature of online journals, citing several horrific examples of when a<br \/>\njournal ceases publication and the publisher does not deign to maintain<br \/>\nthe electronic archive (he also mentions a few instances of publishers<br \/>\nfollowing good practice and maintaining backfiles if a journal has<br \/>\nceased or changed publishers, etc.)&nbsp; He also highlights the LOCKSS<br \/>\n(Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe) project, praises the publishers who<br \/>\nare participating, and chides the holdouts for their<br \/>\nfecklessness.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Porter of Caltech writes an extensive commentary on the fleating nature of online journals, citing several horrific examples of when a journal ceases publication and the publisher does not deign to maintain the electronic archive (he also mentions a few instances of publishers following good practice and maintaining backfiles if a journal has ceased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1077,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scientific-journals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1077"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}