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From: An update on Uniform Resource Locator (URL) decay in MEDLINE abstracts and measures for its mitigation

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Number of Published MEDLINE Abstracts per Year and the Percentage of Inaccessible URLs Accessed During the 30-day Period. The graph shows the number of MEDLINE abstracts published per year (blue line) against the percentage of inaccessible URLs per year of publication (red line). The availability of a URL is dependent on time after publication. A higher decay rate is seen in earlier articles.

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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

ISSN: 1472-6947

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