CU-HSC News Release (DENVER) Oct. 29, 2003. This is the press release about the article, Going, Going, Gone: Lost Internet References by Robert P. Dellavalle, et al. in Science Volume 302, Number 5646, Issue of 31 Oct 2003, pp. 787-788.
The full text online is restricted to subscribers, but the press release is freely available. As you might imagine, the study of more than 1000 articles published between 2000 and 2003 in three scientific journals found that in “articles up to only 27 months old, 13 percent of Internet references were inactive.”

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