Consultant reports and web pages as citable resources-- or not

[Thomas Lammers]

At 08:23 PM 11/10/02 -0700, Robin Leech wrote:

>If citing web pages, then give the location, day and time of day for the
>citing, as web pages change fairly often.

I often see this done, but have often wondered if it's to any avail.  Is it
really possible to retrieve the appearance of a given page at a given
time?  Can I write to a webmaster and ask to see what such-and-such an
address looked like the evening of 26 July 1996???


Thomas G. Lammers, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor and Curator of the Herbarium (OSH)
Department of Biology and Microbiology
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54901-8640 USA

e-mail:       lammers at uwosh.edu
phone:      920-424-1002
fax:           920-424-1101

Plant systematics; classification, nomenclature, evolution, and biogeography
of the Campanulaceae s. lat.

Webpages:
http://www.uwosh.edu/departments/biology/Lammers.htm
http://www.uwosh.edu/departments/biology/herbarium/herbarium.html
http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Resort/7156/lammers.html
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