perma.cc Built & Run by Libraries
The 2015 winner of the Webby Award for best law website goes to Harvard Law School Library – Innovation Lab for the beta site perma.cc.
According to a study by Harvard Law, approximately 70% of all citation links published in law journals from 1999 to 2011 are now defunct. perma.cc plans to prevent all future broken links in legal citation through perma.cc’s three step approach: create, vest, archive.
Create: A user enters a URL creating a Perma Link associated with a temporary archive.
Vest: A Vesting User, someone affiliated with one or more Vesting Organizations such as law journals or courts, reviews and approves the Perma Link making the archive permanent.
Archive: An archive type is chosen (Live Page View, Screen Capture View, Archived Page View.
Visit https://perma.cc/ to learn more!
“Perma.cc is powered by libraries because we’re in the forever business. We’re already looking after printed materials. It’s time we did the same for links.”