Comparative studies of university web sites?

[Prentiss Riddle]

A while back I asked:

> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 10:33:58 -0800
> From: Prentiss Riddle <riddle at is.rice.edu>
> Subject: Comparative studies of university web sites?
> 
> Does anyone know of any good online or printed comparative studies of
> university web sites?

To my surprise I received no positive replies to this question.
I did learn of one relevant report:

  1997 CASE Awards for University World Wide Web Pages 
    (Considered 116 entries, mostly consisting of subsidiary departmental
    or project sites rather than overall university sites.)
    http://www.rutledge.com/stoner/judge97.html

I think there's a research niche to be filled here.  Pity I don't have
the time to try to fill it myself, but I'm undertaking my own much more
informal and less ambitious survey of university web sites, which you'd
be welcome to look at (remembering that it's a work in progress):

        http://www.rice.edu/~riddle/uniweb/

Since this is Web4Lib I'll mention a couple of resources specifically
on *library* web sites (pardon me if you've seen these before):

  AUTHOR:         Garlock, Kristen L.
  TITLE:          Building the service-based library Web site : a step-by-step
                    guide to design and options / Kristen L. Garlock and Sherry
                    Piontek.
  PUBLISHED:      Chicago : American Library Association, 1996.
  DESCRIPTION:    vi, 101 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
  NOTES:          Includes index.
                  Contents: The home page advantage -- Start with a plan --
                    Everybody's web site -- Content -- Presentation -- The
                    dynamic web site -- Appendixes.
  SUBJECTS:       Library information networks
                  World Wide Web (Information retrieval system)
                  Hypertext systems.
                  Computer graphics
  OTHER AUTHORS:  Piontek, Sherry
  ISBN:           0838906745 (alk. paper)

  TITLE:          The library Web / Julie M. Still, editor.
  PUBLISHED:      Medford, NJ : Information Today, 1997.
  DESCRIPTION:    vii, 221 p. ; 24 cm.
  NOTES:          Includes bibliographical references and index.
  SUBJECTS:       Library information networks
                  World Wide Web (Information retrieval system)
                  Library information networks--United States
                  Web sites--Design.
                  Web sites--United States--Design.
  OTHER AUTHORS:  Still, Julie
  ISBN:           157387034X   
  OCLC NUMBER:    36672063

If anyone has anything to add, I'd be interested.

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