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) chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)