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What is the goal of the WebCite® consortium?WebCite® members are editors, publishers, libraries, and other interested entities pursuing a common goal: Digital archiving of webpages or websites which are referenced in scholarly journal articles, therefore preserving the scholarly record and our cultural heritage for future generations (for the broader societal implications see below). Beyond these broader objectives,
WebCite® solves some practical problems, creating some utility and value for readers, providing a solution to "404 File Not Found" errors when clicking on cited webreferences. It also avoids the problems associated with the dynamic nature of Web content, making sure that the reader sees the webdocument exactly the way the author saw it when he cited it. For example, a citing author may critique a report published online. Responding to the critique, the cited author of the online report may subsequently make changes and republish the report at the same URL, without the reader of the critique being able to retrieve the version the citing author has critiqued - the scholarly record is lost. In addition, WebCite® will provide "impact statistics" of webpages and websites (number of citations of a given website or webpage in the scholarly literature, combined with access data), helping for example tenure and promotion committees to establish the "impact" and importance of webservices and digital objects, complementing metrics like the Journal Impact Factor developed by ISI (the latter measures the impact of a scientific journal based on how often articles from a specific journal are cited).
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