What is WEB FEET?
What
is WEB FEET?
Excellent Sites, Convenient Formats
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What
is WEB FEET?
WEB FEET is a powerful research tool designed to help you save time and
find the best resources available on the Internet. It is not a search
engine, but rather collections of preselected sites reviewed by librarians,
educators, subject-area specialists, and editors.
One WEB FEET user described it as a "great results engine." You'll find high-quality sites in WEB FEET—not thousands upon thousands of sites to sort through as you would with an Internet search engine. And that's what WEB FEET is all about. Giving you not the most information, but the precise information you need—quickly and easily.
Excellent
Sites, Convenient Formats
WEB FEET offers you the best Web sites for thousands of curriculum areas,
general knowledge topics, professional resources, and common personal
interests. For each subject, WEB FEET features stand-alone sites as well
as gateway and directory sites that will help you to go beyond our collections
to other high-quality Web sites. (For example, "Cornell Theory Center
(CTC) Math and Science Gateway" is maintained by CTC, "a high-performance
computing and interdisciplinary research center.") This approach
ensures that you get what experts identify as the latest, best information
available on the Web. All resources are evaluated for age appropriateness,
credibility, ease of use, and value to schools and libraries.
WEB FEET is available in three formats: ONLINE, MARC records for library catalogs, or PRINT. Schools, public libraries, college libraries, and special libraries can choose from several WEB FEET collections to meet their needs: WEB FEET CORE Collection (middle school to adult), WEB FEET K-8 Collection, WEB FEET K-12 Collection, WEB FEET ACADEMIC LIBRARY Collection, WEB FEET PUBLIC LIBRARY Collection, and WEB FEET Health Collection.
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the Experts
The reason that WEB FEET is such a productive research tool is because
its editors and advisors ensure that sites are:
- Selected by experts. An advisory board of librarians and educators directs the editorial selection and evaluation process.
- Fully annotated. Annotations help students and library patrons evaluate resources quickly and find exactly what they want.
- Expanded and updated monthly. New topics are added each month to the CORE, K-8, K-12, ACADEMIC LIBRARY, and PUBLIC LIBRARY Collections. (See New Topics.) Additionally, previously published topics are researched and updated monthly for these collections. All Web site addresses are checked and updated daily.
- Professionally cataloged. Our electronic products are fully searchable, with full annotations, Library of Congress (LC) subject headings, LC and Dewey call numbers, audience descriptions, and live links to the Internet.
- Professionally keyworded. Librarians, teachers, and subject-area specialists keyword each Web site for plain language searching and targeted search results for users of all ages.
- Rigorously reviewed. A team that includes librarians, teachers, curriculum experts, researchers, and subject-area specialists researches and evaluates every site selected for inclusion in WEB FEET based on our rigourous selection criteria. Our unique selection process ensures for better results than any single search engine or directory. All Web sites are revisited on a regular basis to ensure that topic coverage is current.
- Searchable in a variety of practical, easy-to-use ways. Search by keyword(s) or browse by LC subject, title of Web site, author or sponsor, or LC or Dewey call number. Unique features are designed for educators, such as the ability to search by grade levels and curriculum areas. (See How to search by grade levels and curriculum areas.)
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More About WEB FEET
Follow these links to get more information about WEB FEET products, how
to use them, and how you can order them for your library.
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