WebCite

WebCite is archived to request a service of Web sites.

Authors can cite the archived websites using WebCite, in addition to citing the original URL of the web page. Readers are possible archived web pages indefinitely retrieve, without consideration for an update, or the disappearance of the original page (so-called dead link).

WebCite, webcite.net started with a pilot project at the address in 1998, is a non-profit organization based in Toronto, Canada that focuses on archiving academic content and is supported by publishers and editors of this. The service can be used free of charge from authors and readers.

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While the required archiving to this reproduction is in the United States probably derived from the principle of fair use, according to European and especially German law, the public disclosure ( § 19a of the German Copyright Act ) without the prior permission of the copyright inadmissible. WebCite also considered opt-out markings of websites or removes them. Request of the rights owner from the archive, but this is also in accordance with European and especially German law without the consent of the author most likely inadmissible

Alternatives

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