Website review

✍ Scribed by Thomas Valère

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 51 KB
• Volume: 1
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1099-498X
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1521-2254(199901/02)1:1<69::aid-jgm11>3.0.co;2-2

✦ Synopsis

Scienti®c journals traditionally feature book reviews. Books are, after all, the traditional vehicle for collating, referencing and disseminating knowledge. While this remains essentially true, the advent of the internet as a widely used resource, has radically modi®ed the manner in which we seek, access and use information.

It seemed only ®tting for a journal born in the midst of the information revolution to draw attention to these new sources.

Some of the sites reviewed will already be known to you but perhaps their content will be less well-known. This regular feature of the journal is intended to help you discover new sites of interest, but also to provide a rapid and convenient means of revealing what you always knew was there but never had the time or inclination to look at. Finally, if you have any information about sites you think are worthy of being more widely known, the editor would be pleased to hear from you at