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Design for Rapid Navigation and Easy Visual Scanning
The philosophy of designing for usability.
Hoffman, Michael. Hypertext Navigation. Design>Web Design>Hypertext>Usability
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Rapid Navigation in Online Documents 
A site dedicated to the design of documents and viewers to support structured hypertext and easy skimming. The site covers information structuring, rapid navigation, and designing Help, Web pages, and documents. The intended audience for this site includes UI designers, technical writers, Web developers, Help authors, usability testers, and hypertext theorists.
Hoffman, Michael. Hypertext Navigation (2003). Design>Web Design>Hypertext>Usability
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You should only link out of your own site as a last resort. In general you want to keep your visitors at your site. Heck, isn't that why you built it? But there are times when it makes sense to stop the insanity and add that link. You must send visitors away sometimes.
Rhodes, John S. WebWord (1999). Design>Web Design>Hypertext>Usability
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I’ve thought of a few ways that links can fail users. By preventing these sorts of things (which admittedly, aren’t all that easy to prevent) we can design better links with the hopes of attaining that place where users never get lost.
Porter, Joshua. Bokardo (2008). Articles>Web Design>Usability>Hypertext
