- published: 17 Sep 2012
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WebCite is an on-demand archiving service, designed to digitally preserve scientific and educationally important material on the web by making snapshots of Internet contents as they existed at the time when a blogger, or a scholar or a Wikipedia editor cited or quoted from it. The preservation service enables verifiability of claims supported by the cited sources even when the original web pages are being revised, removed, or disappear for other reasons, an effect known as link rot.
The service differs from the short time Google Cache copies by having indefinite archiving, and WebCite also offers on-the-fly archiving. The Internet Archive, since 2013, also offers immediate archiving, however, WebCite has some advantages: