Link Rot in 50% of U.S. Supreme Court Cases, 70% of Law Journals. There's A Solution!

There was a lot of buzz about the study finding that half of the links in U.S. Supreme Court cases don't work anymore. Moreover, 70 percent of the links in law reviews and other law journals also have rotten away. But what I love about this study is that the scholars behind it are part of an effort to come up with a solution.

Jonathan Zittrain wrotes that "the Harvard Library Innovation Lab has pioneered a project to unite libraries so that link rot can be mitigated.  We are joined by about thirty law libraries around the world to start Perma.cc, which will allow those libraries on direction of authors and journal editors to store permanent caches of otherwise ephemeral links."

Academics are great at revealing problems, but how often do they also figure out a way to solve them?

(Hat tip to Sarah Kiley for sending this post my way.)