What are LINCS Hot Sites?
LINCS Hot Sites are
WWW sites that present especially outstanding information in exceptional
ways. LINCS singles out Hot Sites for attention to provide a showcase for their high quality
content and design. Each Hot Site
is considered noteworthy in some way and is likely to be seen as exceptional
by practitioners.
Hot Sites must meet all general
LINCS
criteria and any special collections criteria that may apply. Hot Sites must be nominated, either by their owners or by
LINCS
staff or patrons. All nominated sites are evaluated by a committee
that selects several sites to be featured as Hot Sites for a (period of time.)
HOT SITES Selection Criteria:
Each site is reviewed using the following criteria before being selected
as a Hot Site.
1) The site must focus on one or more of the following
topics:
a) Adult literacy, as defined for the National Adult Literacy Survey
and the work of the National Institute for Literacy.
b) Adult education.
c) Training and development opportunities for adult education
practitioners.
d) Community resources closely connected to adult education or adult
literacy.
2) The site must contain significant content useful for
the field. Sites with the primary purpose of advertising commercial products
will not be included unless significant portions of the sites contain highly
relevant educational or informational content.
3) The site must contain innovative information about
research or practice that is likely to be of high interest to practitioners.
4) The site should be directed to a regional, national,
or
international audience.
LINCS Selection Policy
Statement:
The mission of the Literacy Information aNd Communication System
(LINCS) is to serve as a one-stop gateway to information and
resources,
and to promote intellectual discovery for literacy practitioners,
researchers,
policy makers, and adult learners. Accordingly, the selection policy will
assist selectors in providing quality resource collections and user services
that support the adult literacy community's goals for learning, instruction,
policy implementation, program development and research.
General Selection Criteria for all LINCS
submissions:
The following are the criteria that all resources included in
LINCS
collections are expected to meet, regardless of medium or authorship.
a) The materials
included
in LINCS -- in any medium, whether they are full text,
excerpts,
or
abstracts -- should
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Be clearly connected to educational purposes.
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Have practical value and relevance for literacy practitioners, researchers,
policy makers, or adult learners.
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Be innovative or unique and of high quality.
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Be well-presented and well-formatted (both in electronic and print formats);
the submission of bilingual materials and materials in languages besides
English is encouraged.
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Be current materials or have up-to-date application.
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Have clear statement of authorship, ownership, or responsibility for
content.
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Include an indicator of publication or completion date, or date last
updated.
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Include bibliographic citations, when relevant.
In addition, use of any materials that are not the original creation
of the authors should be accompanied by the creator's express permission
for the material's use in all formats presented. In other words,
if a publication is being made available in print and in an online format,
the creator must give permission to have their work used in both formats.
b) Web links selected for inclusion in the LINCS system must
meet all of the criteria for
original materials and the following additional
criteria.
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Have accurate, functioning URLs; i.e., no "dead links."
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Have short, useful annotations (perhaps highlighting a few features of
the site's relevance for adult literacy practitioners and/or learners).
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Not send people to sites that are password protected or that are not freely
accessible.
Submission Criteria:
Materials submitted to any of the four regional
LINCS
Web
sites or the national site must include the following
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Written permission to publish from the authors (and, if applicable, from
their organizations and funders) or a completed copyright release form.
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The contributor's agreement to have the respective LINCS
Web master editor re-format the materials as needed.
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Contact information of the contributor.
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Credit to the authors, their organizations and their funders.
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A description of how the material has been (or might be) used by
instructors,
adult learners, etc.
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Completion date of the material or site.
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Proper citation of direct quotations and other sources used in the
material.
Electronic submission of materials is preferred. Contributors are asked
to consider whether especially long or especially short documents are useful
and whether the information could be presented in a better format, such
as an abstract with a link to a complete report. LINCS
selectors
strongly prefer that materials include or be accompanied by the following:
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Rationale for inclusion in LINCS.
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Recommended key words, preferably from the Literacy Thesaurus (LT), which is the authorized term list for
LINCS;
LT terms are also useful metatags.
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A brief abstract or summary indicating the scope and nature of the site's
contents.
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As appropriate, tables of contents, illustrations, indices, handouts,
appendices
and other supplementary information that may prove useful to individuals
utilizing the material.
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A note indicating any special circumstances that might prevent materials
from meeting the published guidelines.
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