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httpEvaluate 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.

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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.

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceEvaluate 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.

Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources
From the University of California, Los Angeles Libraries. This Web page is short, but brings up some relevant points when evaluating your source.

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