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At 9/3/2009 10:55 AM Thursday, John Gorentz wrote: >There are academic publications that allow web links in their citations Thanks, yes, I have noticed that, notably in the journal Science from the AAAS. And I find that disturbing, as I do not trust online links and content to remain stable (organizational efforts notwithstanding), and what assurance do I have that even if the link does still work that the authors have not subtly changed the content from the time the link got published? I simply trust good-old paper records on shelves (or online copies stored in my own local archive) to remain more stable, if less convenient. But then I am not a publishing academic, so who am I to say? (By contrast, at least Wikipedia openly admits that its content is subject to change at any moment, and in fact makes a virtue of that :).) -- dkm