Figure 4From: An update on Uniform Resource Locator (URL) decay in MEDLINE abstracts and measures for its mitigation Number of Published MEDLINE Abstracts per Year and the Percentage of Inaccessible URLs Accessed During the 30-day Period. The graph shows the number of MEDLINE abstracts published per year (blue line) against the percentage of inaccessible URLs per year of publication (red line). The availability of a URL is dependent on time after publication. A higher decay rate is seen in earlier articles.Back to article page