Comparisons Administrative and Quality Control | Content | Design | Search Engine


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For the comparisons between sites, we have selected from the checklist of criteria just a few issues of primary utility in quickly determining the value of a site for answering a given question.
  • Administrative and Quality Control
    1. Content Access Errors
    2. Dead Ends / Dead Links
    3. Contact Information Available On Site
  • Content
    1. Target Audience (Scope)
    2. Who Selects
    3. Update Frequency
  • Design
    1. Screen Size / Page Length
    2. Frames
    3. Java
    4. Cookies
    5. Animated GIFs
    6. Help Available
  • Search Engine
    1. Available
    2. Retrieval
    3. Boolean Operators
    4. Wildcards/Truncation
    5. Search Help
BioSites
CliniWeb
Galaxy
GHN
Health on the Net Foundation
Health A to Z
Healthfinder
HealthLinks
HealthWeb
Martindale's
Magellan
MedExplorer
Medfinder
Medical Matrix
Medical World Search
MedWeb
Multimedia Medical Reference Library
NOAH
OMNI
Health Sciences Library, U of Pittsburgh
Virtual Hospital
WebDoctor
WWW Virtual Library: Biosciences: Medicine
Yahoo Health

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Last updated: May 23, 1998.
Copyright 1997, 1998, P. F. Anderson, Nancy Allee, Jean Chung, Brian Westra, Virginia Lingle.