More Than 2 Million Research Papers Have Disappeared from the Internet

March 4, 2024

Several stacks of papers

(Nature) – More than one-quarter of scholarly articles are not being properly archived and preserved, a study of more than seven million digital publications suggests. The findings, published in the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication on 24 January, indicate that systems to preserve papers online have failed to keep pace with the growth of research output. (Read More)