ASSOCIATES (vol. 5, no. 1, July 1998) - associates.ucr.edu
Okay, who sent all of this suffocating heat down here to Texas!! We haven't had a decent rain in Houston now for over a month! I thought that going to ALA Annual in Washington, D.C. would be better, but they were just as bad off, at least the first two days. Oh well, I guess this is what is called living in the South.
Many of us are now working on the Web, so I thought that listing some sites that will assist us in evaluating Internet resources would be appropriate for this long hot summer. Have fun exploring these sites, and if you would like me to explore a specific topic in a future edition, please email me with your suggestions. Happy surfing (Internet or otherwise)!
The Librarians' Index to the Internet
(sites are "evaluated" and "annotated" in this subject directory)
Biblio Tech [http://wkweb3.cableinet.co.uk/biblio/] [This link no longer works, 11/19/2004] (there's a "Reviews" section)
Starting with the Sept. 1997 issue, CHOICE began including reviews of Web sites.
OMNI Advisory Group for Evaluation Criteria [http://omni.ac.uk/agec/agec.html] [This link no longer works, 11/19/2004]
Tracing Resources by Subject on the Internet [http://www.lboro.ac.uk/info/training/finding/tracing_subjects.html] [This link no longer works, 11/19/2004]
Evaluation/review services for Internet resources [http://www.lboro.ac.uk/info/training/finding/finding_quality.html#Eval] [This link no longer works, 11/19/2004]
Web pages dealing with quality issues
AlphaSearch [http://www.calvin.edu/library/as/] [This link no longer works, 11/19/2004]
WWW Virtual Library [http://vlib.stanford.edu/Overview.html] [This link no longer works, 11/19/2004]
Reference Desk page at Academic Info
College and Research Libraries NewsNet
has a good collection of reviews. There's an archive of their reviews here.
Electronic Resources Review [http://www.anbar.co.uk/products/err.htm] [This link no longer works, 11/19/2004]
which is published by Anbar Electronic
Intelligence in the UK. It's subscription-based; only subscribers (and
reviewers) receive passwords, but it does have scholarly reviews of web
resources. They'll give you a free 30-day trial if you want to see what
it's like. (I review for this journal)
BioSites, a distributed approach to the collection development of quality Internet resources in the biomedical sciences.
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