Permanence of Web Page References—Reply
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In Reply: While Dr Kadhiravan is correct in the description of the NLM initiatives regarding the labeling of permanence levels for URLs,1 unfortunately none of the URL references in our study would have been affected by this change. Although the citations evaluated were from 5 major medical journals, no citation referenced an NLM URL. The referenced URLs included Web pages from commercial resources, nonprofit organizations, and academic research and government Web-based sources.
Dr Kadhiravan’s suggestion that journals only accept URLs whose permanence level is guaranteed addresses 2 core questions: Do the major journals feel that this issue of URL citations is significant, and are they prepared to pursue a consensus to establish new standards for authors regarding maintaining and/or archiving this reference data for future citation?
Renée Crichlow, MD
reneec4@u.washington.edu
University of Washington
Montana Family Medicine Residency Program
Billings, Mont
Nicole Winbush, MD
Saint Vincent Healthcare
Billings
1. National Library of Medicine. Developing Permanence Levels and the Archives for NLM's Permanent Web Documents. Available at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/psd/pcm/devpermanence.html. Accessed January 25, 2005 and archived by author.
Letters Section Editor: Robert M. Golub, MD, Senior Editor.
JAMA. 2005;293:1450.
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