In addition, the resource description should include details about the content that is available for free and for a fee via the Internet. Sites purely describing personal experiences or personal opinion are excluded. BioResearch performs a directory function and therefore the home pages of UK-based Higher and Further Education institutions and departments are automatically included. Individual resources available from the home page of an HE or FE department, would be evaluated and described separately. The home pages of departments based outside the UK are only included where they provide significant content of interest to the gateway's audience.
Pure advertising is excluded.
However, resources available from a commercial site, such as a reagent or cell-line catalogue or an interactive teaching resource, would be included where a useful service of relevance to the gateway's audience is provided for free. Such examples would be evaluated and described at the individual resource level, indicating in the resource description who has produced the information. Material is excluded if it is strictly local in context. Material that is no longer available is excluded. Resources not accessible from within the UK are excluded.