Perma.cc is a free service to create permanent, online, archived documents of sources cited by scholars, journals, courts, and others. It is a simple tool to prevent link rot, so your readers will always have access to your references.
When you cite research in peer-reviewed literature, you can use persistent links such as digital object identifiers (DOIs).
But what if your scholarship depends on citing websites and similar online content? There is a good chance that, over time, links will break and content will disappear or change.
Perma.cc can help you by saving an archived copy of the content that you can link to in your reference list.
Use Perma.cc when the source you are citing doesn't already have a permanent URL, for example for blog posts, news articles, ephemeral web pages, tweets, etc.
See an example of an archived page here: https://perma.cc/T8U2-994F
Perma.cc is not intended as a storage solution for active research. Use of external platforms like Perma.cc to share items acquired from UMKC Libraries licensed databases or subscription services, or via Interlibrary Loan (ILL), violates terms of service and our institutional licenses. Users found to be in violation of these agreements risk losing access privileges to Perma.cc and other services.
Go to https://perma.cc. If you do not have an account, you can create one with your UMKC or UM System email as an individual to save up to 10 links with a personal account.
UMKC faculty, staff, and students who need to save more than 10 links should. contact Digital Scholarship Services and request to be added as a sponsored user. UMKC Libraries Digital Scholarship Services is a designated registrar for the colleges of the UMKC main Volker campus and the Health Sciences campus.
The exact form of your citation will depend on citation practices in your discipline, but here is one example:
Scott Althaus & Kalev Leettaru, Airbrushing History, American Style, Cline Center for Democracy (Nov. 25, 2008), http://www.clinecenter.illinois.edu/airbrushing_history, archived at https://perma.cc/G8PW-798L.
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