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

Erick Ducut* email, Fang Liu* email and Paul Fontelo* email

Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD, USA

author email corresponding author email* Contributed equally

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008, 8:23doi:10.1186/1472-6947-8-23

Published: 11 June 2008

Additional files

Additional file 1:

Study Database. This is the general database of URL addresses that were extracted from MEDLINE abstracts from 1994 to 2006.

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