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WebWatch Articles

Articles Published Article Project Completion

The following articles were published after the end of the WebWatch project funding:

Automated Benchmarking Of Local Government Web Sites
Presented at the Euroweb 2001 conference held in Pisa, Italy on 18-20th December 2001. Paper published in the conference proceedings.
See <http://opus.bath.ac.uk/23382/>
WebWatch: An Update on Search Engines Used in UK University Web Sites
Published in Ariadne, Issue 36, July 2003
See <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue36/web-watch/>
WebWatch: Surfing Historical UK University Web Sites
Published in Ariadne, Issue 35, April 2003
See <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue35/web-watch/>
WebWatch: A Survey Of Web Server Software Used By UK University Web Sites
Published in Ariadne, Issue 34, January 2003
See <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue34/web-watch/>
WebWatch: An Accessibility Analysis Of UK University Entry Points
Published in Ariadne, Issue 33, October 2002
See <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue33/web-watch/>
WebWatch: Revisiting 404 Error Pages In UK University Web Sites
Published in Ariadne, Issue 32, July 2002
See <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue32/web-watch/>
WebWatch: An Update Of A Survey Of The Numbers of UK University Web Servers
Published in Ariadne, Issue 31, April 2002
See <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue31/web-watch/>
WebWatch: An Update On Search Engines Used In UK Universities
Published in Ariadne, Issue 30, January 2002
See <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue30/web-watch/>
WebWatch: Carrying Out Your Own WebWatch Survey
Published in Ariadne, Issue 29, October 2001
See <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue29/web-watch/>
WebWatch: Size of Institutional Top Level Pages
Published in Ariadne, Issue 28, June 2001
See <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue28/web-watch/>
WebWatch: What's Related To My Web Site?
Published in Ariadne, Issue 27, March 2001
See <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue27/web-watch/>
WebWatching eLib Project Web Sites
Published in Ariadne, Issue 26, January 2001
See <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue26/web-watch/>
WebWatching Telematics For Libraries Project Web Sites
Published in Exploit Interactive, Issue 7, October 2000
WebWatch: A Survey Of Web Server Software Used In UK University Web Sites
Published in Ariadne, Issue 25, October 2000
See <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue25/web-watch/>
WebWatch: A Survey Of Numbers of UK University Web Servers
Published in Ariadne issue 24, June 2000
See <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue24/web-watch/>
WebWatch: A Survey Of Links to UK University Web Sites
Published in Ariadne issue 23, March 2000
See <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue23/web-watch/>
WebWatch: A Survey Of Institutional Web Gateways
Published in Ariadne issue 22, December 1999
See <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue22/web-watch/>
WebWatch: UK University Search Engines
Published in Ariadne issue 21, September 1999
See <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue21/webwatch/>
WebWatch: 404s - What's Missing?
Published in Ariadne issue 20, June 1999
See <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue20/404/>
Surveys of Search Engines on UK Public Library Web Sites
Published on UKOLN Web site: January 2000, October 2000

Articles Published During Project Lifetime

The following articles related to the WebWatch project have been published.

Conclusions From The WebWatch Project
Published in Ariadne issue 19
Showing Robots the Door
Published in Ariadne issue 15
WebWatching UK Universities and Colleges
Published in Ariadne issue 12
Robot Seeks Public Library Websites
Published in the December 1997 edition of LA Record
Library Technology Articles
Articles published in the print version of Library Technology
Virtually Inaccessible?
Articles published in Library Technology February 1999

Reports

Note that a number of reports have also been produced.