Akademik Yayınlarda Web Alıntısı Bozulması: Türk Kütüphaneciliği Dergisi Örneği

Amaç: Bu çalışmada Türk Kütüphaneciliği dergisindeki web alıntılarının erişim sorunlarının belirlenmesi amaçlanmaktadır. Yöntem: Bu amaçla Türk Kütüphaneciliği dergisinin 2005-2020 yılları arasındaki hakemli çalışmaların DergiPark arşivinden bibliyografik kayıtları indirilmiş ve seçilen yayın türlerine göre web alıntıları elde edilmiştir. Daha sonra web alıntılarının kullanım oranları, erişim seviyeleri, URL'lerin yarılanma ömürleri ve üst seviye alan adlarının erişilebilirliği analiz edilmiştir. Bulgular: Türk Kütüphaneciliği dergisi hakemli makalelerinde web alıntılarının sıklıkla kullanıldığı görülmüş ve son yıllarda kullanım eğiliminin sürekli artış gösterdiği anlaşılmıştır. Web alıntılarının ortalama yarılanma ömrü 3 yıldır. Ayrıca yakın tarihli makalelerde kullanılan web alıntılarının erişilebilirlik oranının öncekilere göre daha yüksek olduğu görülmüştür. Sonuç: Bulgular, Türk Kütüphaneciliği dergisinin web alıntılarında kalıcı bozulma ve erişilebilirlik sorunları olduğunu ortaya koymuş ve web alıntılarının erişilebilirliğini artırmak için dijital işaretçilerin kullanımını teşvik eden destek politikalarının geliştirilmesi gerektiğini göstermiştir. Özgünlük: Bu çalışma Türkçe akademik literatürde Türkiye adresli makalelerin web alıntılarına erişim sorunlarını inceleyen ilk çalışmadır.

Anahtar Kelimeler:

Web alıntısı, URL bozulması, referans çürümesi, akademik yayıncılık, üst veri

Decay of Web References in Academic Publications: A Case of Turkish Librarianship Journal

Purpose: This paper aims to determine the problems of web citation accessibility in the Turkish Librarianship journal. Method: For this purpose, bibliographic records of the peer-reviewed studies published in the Turkish Librarianship journal between the years 2005 and 2020 were downloaded from the DergiPark archive and web citations were obtained according to the selected publication types. Then, usage rate of web citations, their access levels, the half-life of URLs, and accessibility of top-level domain names were identified and analyzed. Findings: It has been observed that web citations are frequently used in peer-reviewed articles in the Turkish Librarianship journal, and it has been understood that the usage trend has been increasing continuously in recent years. The average half-life of web citations in data is three years. In addition, the accessibility rate of web citations used in recent articles is higher than earlier ones. Implications: The findings indicate that there have been persistent decay and accessibility issues in the web citations of the Turkish Librarianship journal, and support policies encouraging the use of persistent identifiers should be developed to increase the accessibility of web citations. Originality: This is the first study in the Turkish academic literature to investigate the status of web citations of articles based in Turkey.

Keywords:

Web citation, URL decay, reference rot, academic publishing, meta-data,

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