The Journal of Nutrition Vol. 127 No. 8 August 1997, pp. 1527-1532
Copyright ©1997 by the American Society for Nutritional Sciences

Where To Find Nutritional Science Journals on the World Wide Web

Manuscript received 3 March 1997. Initial reviews completed 4 April 1997. Revision accepted 24 April 1997.

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The World Wide Web (WWW) is a burgeoning information resource that can be utilized for current awareness and assistance in manuscript preparation and submission. The ever changing and expanding nature of the WWW allows it to provide up to the minute information, but this inherent changeability often makes information access difficult. To assist nutrition scientists in locating useful information about nutritional science journals on the WWW, this article critically reviews and describes the WWW sites for seventeen highly ranked nutrition and dietetics journals. Included in each annotation are the site's title, web address or Universal Resource Locator (URL), journal ranking and site authorship. Also listed is whether or not the site makes available the guidelines for authors, tables of contents, abstracts, online ordering, as well as information about the editorial board. This critical survey illustrates that the information on the web, regardless of its authority, is not of equal quality.