A Subject Guide to Quality Web Sites

Paul R. Burden (Director of Library services at DeVry University, Tinley Park, Illinois, USA) has collated more than 4,200 web links into a single publication. The author's intention is to present a collection of quality web sites to enable researchers to make more informed choices while collecting data on their chosen subject area. During the process of evaluating each resource Burden used five criteria; navigation, authority, currency, relevancy, and scope, in order to assess the resource's overall legitimacy. The book runs to 767 pages and is clearly intended as a desktop reference resource and not as casual or portable reading...