Evaluating Internet Information: The Virginia Tech Library has included a very simple chart that gives brief evaluation criteria that must be used when citing a quality information web site for research purposes. Modified with permission from Susan Beck, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly: or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources Evaluation Criteria

 

Evaluating Websites: A guide to evaluating legitimate websites on the Internet from Lesley University Library.

 

Good, The Bad and The Ugly, or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources: A guide on how to judge a website and decide if it is legitimate by Susan E. Beck, Head, Humanities & Social Sciences Services Department New Mexico State University Library.

 

Internet Detective: An interactive, online tutorial which provides an introduction to the issues of information quality on the Internet and teaches the skills required to evaluate critically the quality of an Internet resource. FREE login required.

 

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: An excellent index of categorized, annotated sites (over 1600) for critically evaluating web resources.

 

Thinking Critically about WWW Resources: A critical guide prepared by Esther Grassian, Librarian at the UCLA College Library. She offers advice for choosing appropriate sites for research purposes, including some tips to consider when selecting Web sources such as Content, Evaluation, Source, Date, and Structure.

 

Virtual Training Suite: Free Internet tutorials to help develop Internet research skills for University courses, these interactive, self-paced, teach-yourself tutorials take around an hour to complete. The tutorials are written and reviewed by a national team of lecturers and librarians from universities across the UK.

 

Whois: Domain-Based research service where anyone can look up avilable domain names or keyword to find out who is responsible for the content of a particular website.

 

WWW Virtual Library: List of online resources relevant for evaluation, development and administration of high quality factual/scholarly sources on the Internet, maintained by the WWW VL Information Quality Group.

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