A new study has found 176 open access journals from 47 countries vanished from the Internet between 2000 and 2019.<br />What's more, study co-author Mikael Laakso of the Hanken School of Economics says nearly 900 'inactive' journals may be at risk of vanishing in the future.<br />According to CNN, the issue of insufficient preservation of the scholarly record online has been raised before.<br />However, study co-author Mikael Laakso says until now, no one had put out names of journals or tried to identify a quantity.<br />Over 50% of the vanished journals were about social sciences and humanities, along with health, physical science, mathematics, and life sciences.<br />For all that work to be nullified and cut off from ever making an impact on the world, for such a trivial reason as not having a backup system in place for PDF files is not something that should be accepted. Mikael Laakso Associate Professor, Hanken School of Economics.
