"This is another product similar to iCyte (http://www.icyte.com/") or the preserving web pages such as with Zotero except it is available to reviewers. -- HSM"
WebCite®?
WebCite®, a member of the International Internet Preservation Consortium, is an on-demand archiving system for webreferences (cited webpages and websites, or other kinds of Internet-accessible digital objects), which can be used by authors, editors, and publishers of scholarly papers and books, to ensure that cited webmaterial will remain available to readers in the future. If cited webreferences in journal articles, books etc. are not archived, future readers may encounter a "404 File Not Found" error when clicking on a cited URL. Try it! Archive a URL here. It's free and takes only 30 seconds.
A WebCite®-enhanced reference is a reference which contains - in addition to the original live URL (which can and probably will disappear in the future, or its content may change) - a link to an archived copy of the material, exactly as the citing author saw it when he accessed the cited material.
Webcite is not really anything like iCyte. Webcite is an archiving service that will preserve the web page as it appeared on a certain day. However Webcite creates and manages this database.
ReplyDeleteiCyte lets you save and create the archive yourself. It certainly preserves the web page but because you are creating your own database, you have much more flexibility once you do. You can easily share your research and the tools iCyte provides for tagging and searching are really very powerful.
Although they both preserve digital content they really don't belong in the same category. iCyte is a complete research tool, not just an mechanism for archiving.