[WEB4LIB] Looking for Internet Website Reference Sources

[Beatrice Pulliam]

Sarah,

I'm unloading alot of what I remember from my Collection Development 
class last year. :-)  These are all academic library leaning...

If you want an all-in-one-place look, I'd probably start with the Best 
of Website supplement published by Choice every year.  Here's the actual 
title:

Choice. Special supplement : current [web] reviews for academic libraries

Also, College & Research Libraries News has an Internet Resources Column 
that looks at new resources by topic.  Here's an index here, but it 
might be better to just do the literature search in a database:

http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/internetresources.htm

ACRL also has a Core List for its Women's Studies Section WSS.  I think 
the ACRL list is all books, but you may find more if you go to the WS 
site of the library that's hosting it: 
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/

It looks like they check the links regularly.

I was going to recommend Internet Scout, but I haven't used it in a 
while and the page isn't coming up.  You may also have some luck with:

Infomine
http://infomine.ucr.edu/

Bubl
http://bubl.ac.uk/link/


Lastly, I'd also look at some of the larger libraries in the US: 
Columbia,  I'd look at some of the collection development literature. 
There's bound to be some special issue type stuff out there on e-resources.

Good luck.

Beatrice Pulliam

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Beatrice R. Pulliam
Reference Librarian and Assistant Professor
Phillips Memorial Library
Providence College
549 River Avenue
Providence, RI  02918
401.865.2891
http://www.providence.edu/Academics/Phillips+Memorial+Library/