On this page you can find links to the selection criteria of a number of gateways and services that have used DESIRE research to inform the development of their resource selection criteria.

DESIRE suggests that each gateway needs to develop its own unique set of selection criteria to take the information needs of the user group and the aims of the service into account. The examples given here, illustrate the way that DESIRE guidelines ca n be used to develop service-specific criteria.

There are a number of advantages in developing a set of explicit selection criteria for a gateway or library:

• helps users to appreciate that the service is selective and quality controlled
• helps users to understand what type of quality information they will find when using the service
• helps staff to be consistent in their selection and to maintain the quality of the collection
• the criteria can be used to train new staff

Biz/ed (Business Education on the Internet)
http://www.bized.ac.uk/listserv/quality.htm

The Quality Criteria for Biz/ed

DutchESS (Dutch Electronic Subject Service)
http://www.konbib.nl/dutchess/manual/

The Dutchess Manual (available in Dutch only).

EELS (Engineering Electronic Library)
http://www.ub2.lu.se/eel/qualcrit.html

The Quality and Selection Policy for EELS.

SOSIG (The Social Science Information Gateway)
http://www.sosig.ac.uk/desire/escope.html
http://www.sosig.ac.uk/desire/collect.html
http://www.sosig.ac.uk/desire/ecrit.html

The Scope Policy, Collection Management Policy and the Selection Criteria for SOSIG.