VeriCiteCrawler

[keyplyr]

UA: VeriCiteCrawler/Nutch-1.9
Protocol: HTTP/1.0
Robots.txt: Yes
Host: oar.net (OH Tech Consortium)

OARnet supplies bandwidth to schools, possible only in the Ohio area. As such, their bot may be checking links for security purposes.


Mentioned, but not identified here: [webmasterworld.com...]

[keyplyr]

Typo: possible should be possibly

[lucy24]

may be checking links for security purposes

The name makes it sound as if they're checking assignments submitted online, to see if the references cited actually exist.

:: thinking that this is a heck of a lot easier than looking up every physical printed book named in an old-style student paper ::

[keyplyr]

Makes sense

[aristotle]

There are three student paper checker type sites that I see in my logs:
-- Blackboard SafeAssign
-- Grammarly
-- VeriCite

I see Blackboard by far the most, then Grammerly, then VeriSign the least.

I also see one called Easybib, which is more of a backlink checker. It comes more often than Grammarly and VeriCite, but less often than Blackboard.

There is also one called WebCite supposed to be used for professional scientific and journalists articles etc.

[keyplyr]

When I first built my site in 1995 it was on the Univ of Cal servers as an edu resource (moved to private servers in '98.) As such, it got listed in the US library system which puts it in every single school & community library in the US, most of Canada & Europe and a lot of other countries. It's even in the Library of Congress (20 years now.) Talk about a lot of citation checkers, library link validations and copyright checks :)