SLIS529 - Evaluating Web Information

Evaluating Web Resources

• Beyond Algorithms: A Librarian's Guide to Finding Web Sites You Can Trust - by Karen G. Schneider, Director of Librarians' Internet Index (LII). From the Google Librarian Center Newsletter. (Read)
  
• Whales in the Minnesota River? - Tina Kelley, New York Times, March 4, 1999 (Browse)
  
• Five criteria for evaluating Web pages - Cornell University Library (Read)
• Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools - Cornell University Library (Browse)
• Evaluate Web Pages - Widener University, Wolfgram Memorial Library (Browse)
  
• Testing the Surf: Criteria for Evaluating Internet Information Resources. - Alastair G. Smith, "The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 8, no. 3 (1997). (Browse)
• What is Credible Information? - Donald T. Hawkins, Online, September 1999 (Browse)
  
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• Checklist For Evaluating Web Sites - USC Thomas Cooper Library, Reference Department (PDF File)
  
• Evaluating Web Sites - Lake Forest College Library (includes examples)
• Evaluating Web Sites - Iona College Library
• Evaluating Web Sites - Evaluation Form - Iona College Library
• Evaluating Internet Information - Virginia Tech University Libraries
  

Example Web Sites

• From Virginia Tech University Libraries

Are these credible sites?

Same Topics - Yet Very Different

• White House - http://www.whitehouse.gov/
• White House - http://www.whitehouse.org/

• Alien Abduction Experience and Research - Abduct.Com
• Exploring The Alien Abduction Phenomenon - Nova

Potpourri:

• Pioneers In Human Cloning - Clonaid.com
• Male Pregnancy - Randolph Y. Teasley Hospital, Dwayne Medical Center
• Mankato, Minnesota Home Page - Don Descy, Mankato State Univ.
• Brain Transplantation - BrainTrans, Inc.
• Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
• Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie  and its home site  Zapato Productions Intradimensional
• Living On Light - Jasmuheen's Cosmic Internet Academy
• Cannabis and the Christ:: Jesus used marijuana - from Cannabis Culture Magazine