Sources for "Scholarly" Web Reviews -- Summary

[Angela Elkordy]

Many, many thanks for the swift and helpful responses I received to my
original inquiry asking about sources of web reviews. I tried to reply and
thank everyone personally. If  I missed you, please accept my apologies!.
The following is a summary listing of the information I received:        

(I have omitted duplicate suggestions -- )

My initial suggestions included: Argus, Magellan, LJ digital Webwatch,
ADAM, Ariadne, College & Research , Library News,Scout Report.

Angela

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Six Senses review site                   
http://www.sixsenses.com/                                                        
                                                                                 
Medical Matrix                                                            
http://www.medmatrix.org/Index.asp                                               
Note: first time users must register, free of charge                             
                                                                                 
Current Cites                                                                    
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/                                        
 (an "annotated" monthly bibliography of selected articles, books, and
elctronic  
documents on information technology)                                             
                                                                                 
The Librarians' Index to the Internet                                            
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/InternetIndex/                                       
(sites are "evaluated" and "annotated" in this subject directory)                
                                                                                 
and Biblio Tech                                                                  
(there's a "Reviews" section)                                                    
http://wkweb3.cableinet.co.uk/biblio/

Starting with the Sept. 1997 issue, CHOICE began including reviews of Web        
sites.
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OMNI Advisory Group for Evaluation Criteria
http://omni.ac.uk/agec/agec.html                                                 
                                                                                 
scholarly web review resources are listed in:                   
Tracing Resources by Subject on the Internet                                     
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/info/training/finding/tracing_subjects.html               

See also: 
Evaluation/review services for Internet resources 
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/info/training/finding/finding_quality.html#Eval 

Web pages dealing with quality issues 
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/info/training/finding/finding_quality.html#Webpages 

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Internet Resources Newsletter
http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/irn.html
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http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/projects/                                   
Access to Network Resources                                                      
                                                                                 
http://www.calvin.edu/library/as/                                                
AlphaSearch
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There are also reviews in the Chronicle of Higher Education and the
journal      
Online.
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BUBL: http://bubl.ac.uk/link/                                                    
Infomine: http://lib-www.ucr.edu/                                                
and maybe:                                                                       
WWW Virtual Library: http://vlib.stanford.edu/Overview.html                      
(some reviews, though not many).
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Reference Desk page at          
Academic Info.  Listed there are the major academic subject directories as       
well as other information gateways.                                              
                                                                                 
http://www.academicinfo.net/ref.html
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National Library of Australia:                           
http://www.nla.gov.au/internet.html#alls                                         
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College and Research Libraries NewsNet has a good collection of reviews          
here:                                                                            
http://www.ala.org/acrl/resrces.html                                             
There's an archive of their reviews here:                                        
http://www.lib.cwu.edu/~samato/IRA/
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_Electronic Resources Review_ 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.                                         
                                                                                 
The URL is:  http://www.anbar.co.uk/products/err.htm
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BioSites, a distributed approach to the collection development of quality
Internet resources in the biomedical  sciences. Here's the URL:                                                        
                                                                                 
http://www.library.ucsf.edu/biosites/


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Angela Elkordy
Coordinator of Electronic Resources
The Sage Colleges Libraries
Albany and Troy, NY
(518) 292-1734
elkora at sage.edu
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