2009-10-26: Communications of the ACM Article Published

The article " Why Websites Are Lost (and How They're Sometimes Found) " has finally been published in the November 2009 issue of Communications of the ACM . Co-written with Frank McCown and Cathy Marshall , it was accepted for publication in the fall of 2007. Although we've had a pre-print available since 2008, it just isn't the same until you see it in print. Except we won't be seeing this in print; it is instead published in the "Virtual Extension" part of the CACM. So even though it has page numbers (pp. 141-145), this article won't be among those that arrive in your mailbox in a few weeks. As someone who has spent his entire career trying to transform the scholarly communication process with the web and digital libraries I completely understand this move by the CACM, but I have to admit I'm disappointed that I won't see a printed, bound copy. Even though in the long-term, all discovery will come from the web (e.g., Google Scho