Reviewing the Reviewers of Chemistry Sites.

[Rzepa, Henry]

Dare I suggest that with the critical mass (and the chaos) of the chemical web
now ripe, 1998 looks set to be the "year of the review". Mark Winter
has already announced the  ChemDex reviews, as has the
Internet J. Chemistry, and I am sure they will not be alone.

I came across the "EBIG" site, the Encyclopaedia  Britannica Internet
Guide (www.ebig.com) which purports to offer high quallity reviews
of around 65,000 sites. It appears that in the area of chemistry, they
have selected perhaps 15-20 sites, but to me at least, along with recognised
ones, there were one or two idiosyncratic ones to say the least. My "review"
of their review would rate them quite poorly.

No doubt chemists will get their house in order in 1998, but it will be
interesting to see how the dust settles. Even more interestingly, is whether
these site reviews will charge the user!  So I await with relish the first site
to offer reviews of the reviewers!!

Henry Rzepa. +44 171 594 5774 (Office) +44 594 5804 (Fax)



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