Reviewing E-Journals

Aims Of This Exercise

This exercise is intended for a hands-on exercises followed by group discussion. The aim of the exercise is to rate a number of e-journals using a variety of different criteria.

A2.1 Rating Current E-Journals

Split up into small groups and rate the following e-journals. Note down any comments you have; you could give them marks out of ten.

	Style	Navigation	Structure	Content	Other
D-Lib <http://www.dlib.org/>
FreePint <http://www.freepint.com/issues/ issues.htm>
The British Library Newspaper Library Magazine <http://www.bl.uk/collections/newspaper/ news.html>
Wired <http://www.wired.com/wired/>
Information Research <http://informationr.net/ir/>
	Style	Navigation	Structure	Content	Other
Interact (ILRT) <http://www.ltss.bris.ac.uk/interact.htm>
JIME <http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/>
Exploit Interactive <http://www.exploit-lib.org/>

A2.2 To Conclude…

Which is your favourite Web publication and why?

Which is your least favourite Web publication and why?

What mistakes would you avoid when creating your own Web publication?