2017-09-13: Pagination Considered Harmful to Archiving
Figure 1 - 2016 U.S. News Global Rankings Main Page as Shown on Oct 30, 2015 Figure 2 - 2016 U.S. News Global Rankings Main Page With Pagination Scheme as Shown on Oct 30, 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20151030092546/https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/rankings While gathering data for our work in measuring the correlation of university rankings by reputation and by Twitter followers (McCoy et al., 2017), we discovered that many of the web pages which comprised the complete ranking list for U.S. News in a given year were not available in the Internet Archive . In fact, 21 of 75 pages (or 28%) had never been archived at all. "... what is part of and what is not part of an Internet resource remains an open question" according to research concerning Web archiving mechanisms conducted by Poursadar and Shipman (2017). Over 2,000 participants in their study were presented with various types of web content (e.g., multi-page stories, reviews, ...