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Archival Copies of the Original Scholarly Societies Project
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Why Are We providing Links to the Original Edition of the Scholarly Societies Project
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Because Archives are Important
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he short answer is that keeping archival copies of work is important. We also understand that some people may want to access the original edition, even though three-quarters of the links have broken since 2011 (when the Project collapsed), and the search engine no longer works either.
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The Copy of the Data Set at references.net
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Features of the copy of the Data Set at references.net
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he copy of the data set at
references.net presents various problems.
Chief among them is that the publisher had monetized it so highly that the
clutter of advertisements on every page in the Project is so distracting
that it is hard to read many of the pages. There are also inexplicable
problems with internal links, as well as some display problems suggesting that
some critical files had not been transferred to the publisher.
Here is a link to the data set at references.net:
https://www.references.net/societies/
You will immediately notice the multitude of advertisements the moment that you click on this link.
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A Copy of the Data Set at the Wayback machine
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Features of the copy of the Data Set on the Wayback Machine
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ome of you may not be familiar with an amazing resource, called the
Wayback Machine, which is located at
https://archive.org/web/. It has been crawling the Internet since 1996 (May 10) and has archived an astonishing amount data found on the Internet at certain points in time.
As one might expect, this Project had been archived at many points in time by
the Wayback Machine after the Editor froze the data set, but before it was
transferred to references.net - one result being that the copies on the Wayback
Machine are pretty much equivalent to the original - but the
retrieval time is sometimes lamentably slow - sometimes as long as a full minute to retrieve a copy of a large file.
The Wayback Machine maintains many archival copies of the first edition. An up-to-date crawl (2014-03-28) prior to the 2015 transfer to References.net is located at:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140328110726/http://www.scholarly-societies.org/
All the pages are easy to read, but none of the URLs there have been updated.
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