Evaluate
Web Sites
It's a big World Wide Web out there, with diverse
organizations and individuals publishing Web pages. How
do you know if what you found is good information? Try
one of these Web sites to learn how to evaluate the information
you have retrieved. Back
to Internet Basics.
Your
Best Bet for a great resource.
Evaluation
of Information Sources
Part of the WWW Virtual Library. This site collects other sites that offer
advice on evaluating Internet resources.
Evaluation
of Web Sites
From Ohio State University Libraries. This
site is a hyperlinked online tutorial with links to
example sites and a handy checklist.
Evaluating
Information Found on the Internet
From Johns Hopkins University. This site covers how to use Authorship, Publishing
body, Point of view or bias, Referral to other sources, Verifiability and Currency
to evaluate a Web site.
Evaluate Web
Pages
From the Wolfgram Memorial Library, Widener University. This resource goes
into more detail, categorizing Web pages into Advocacy, Business/Marketing,
News, Informational and Personal Web pages, with an evaluation checklist for
each, and links to actual Web pages for examples.