What is SCIS’s quality assurance process for websites?

Selecting websites

SCIS applies its regular selection standards when reviewing digital content for inclusion in the SCIS database.

SCIS looks favourably on:

• websites that are openly available and do not require a subscription
• websites that are published or recommended by an authoritative source
• websites where the content is high quality and recent
• websites that are accessible, usable and user-friendly.

SCIS may reject digital content on the basis of:

• poor quality content
• outdated content, including most websites about events that have passed
• content that is not relevant to pedagogy, teacher professional development, or curriculum
• content that is exclusively intended for the purpose of selling a commercial product
• content that cannot be viewed by our cataloguers due to regional restrictions

Checking links

Every fortnight, SCIS runs reports on all records that contain a URL. Any URLs found to be incorrect are updated. If the URL cannot be corrected (for example, the website is no longer available), the record is removed.