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Rotting Research

A project devoted to helping academics and researchers provide robust citations and mitigate link rot.

About


Link rot is an established phenomenon that affects everyone who uses the internet. Researchers looking at individual subjects have recently addressed the extent of link rot’s influence on scholarly publications. One recent study found that 36% of all links in research articles were broken. 37% of DOIs, once seen as a tool to prevent link rot, were broken (Miller, 2022).

Rotting Research allows academics and researchers to upload their work and check the reliability of their citations. It extracts all of the links from the document and then checks to see if the link is accessible to the public.

Check out our website at https://rottingresearch.org.


Our team

Tim Robbins

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Rotting Research Featured in Computers in Libraries.

Rotting Research is proud to have been featured in May's Issue of Computers in Libraries.Computers in Libraries (CIL) is published 10 times a year and serves as a showcase and forum for library tech professionals to share their suc...
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Published on June 1, 2024 by Marshal Miller

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A Python library that scans pdfs for links and checks if the links are active or return an error ...

Top financial contributors

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Marshal Miller

$1,300 USD since Apr 2023

2
Dawn

$90 USD since May 2023

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Guest

$50 USD since May 2023

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Serkan Holat

$30 USD since Oct 2024

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Incognito

$25 USD since May 2023

Rotting Research is all of us

Our contributors 6

Thank you for supporting Rotting Research.

Marshal Miller

Admin

$1,300 USD

Tim Robbins

Core Contributor

Dawn

$90 USD

Guest

$50 USD

Serkan Holat

$30 USD

Thanks for contributing to open source! 🙏 This ...

Incognito

$25 USD

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Transparent and open finances.

+$100.00USD
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Contribution #652824

Debit from Rotting Research to Marshal Miller

-$5.30USD
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Reimbursement #224099

Debit from Rotting Research to Marshal Miller

-$25.00USD
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Reimbursement #224097
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Today’s balance

$194.18 USD

Total raised

$1,294.18 USD

Total disbursed

$1,100.00 USD

Estimated annual budget

$1,298.97 USD