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Finding a Moving Target

JoanShear | 10 March, 2006 16:36

Question:
A student was looking for "Assessment of the Increased Risk of Terrorist or Other Criminal Activity Associated with Posting Off-Site Consequence Analysis Information on the Internet", U.S. Department of Justice, 18 April 2000. The report had been available on the free web at http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/april18final.pdf, and many documents found on Google provided that link. Unfortunately that link leads to a page stating, "We are sorry, but we are unable to locate the page you requested on the Department of Justice Website."

Answer:
Google provided many documents with references to the inactive link. Searching GPO Access and the DOJ website also failed to provide a current link to the document. A search of the GPO database on Silverplater found a link to http://permanent.access.gpo.gov/lps23042/april18final-1.pdf which was used to locate the document.

Post Script:
Coming back to GPO Access and the DOJ website later in the week searches were able to locate the PURL. I am unable to tell if the failure to find them earlier was due to poor searching or not actually being available on the earlier date on the various search engines.


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