The group was charged with developing a plan for a cooperative approach between the Resource Libraries in Region 8 to identify quality Internet resources and make this information available to health sciences libraries. The product of the group's work would be some type of system, with a sharing of labor, and an end-product which would be of use to hospital and other health sciences library staff in Region 8. The group decided that an Internet-based clearinghouse would be the best way to meet its charge, with the work of seleting and describing quality resources to be divided up among the participating Resource Libraries in the region. Project Goals and Implementation BioSites is based on a web-based archive housed at the UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management . Those with permission to submit items will fill out a web-based form.
Users can view the latest twenty-five resources to enter the archive.
They can also view them by topic. Full-text searching is also available. While anyone will be able to access BioSites, submissions will only be accepted from the authorized individuals who have access to the submission form. In particular, the Group must thank Greg Williamson, ATG software engineer, who actually programmed the system. BioSites would not have been possible without his effort.