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- Checklist with "So What?" buttons to clarify why you'd want to have an answer to the various questions.
- Contains pointers to criteria for evaluating information resources, particularly those on the Internet.
- Research librarian elaborates on five characteristics of superior web sites: timeliness, expediency, accuracy, objectivity, and authenticity
- This site contains a list of articles from librarians and other information specialists on Web evaluations. In addition, a checklist for evaluating a Web site of as a potential education resource is included.
- Tutorial from the University of Wollongong Library.
- Article explains how to give a web page content the mark of quality. Conversely, it helps point out what to look for in a quality site.
- Bulleted list of questions to review while checking out a website.
- Printable form with hyperlinks to explanations of the criteria used, namely authority, content and scope, design and functionality.
- Detailed list of considerations.
- Questions and criteria to cover. Part of a larger tutorial on effective web searching for college students, written by a research librarian.
- Nine tutorials provide guidance and practical exercises on information competence.
- Expectations for site credibility, usability, and content.
- A guide to Web research and evaluation strategies, written for first year rhetoric and composition students.
- Web site evaluation guide with resources and links.
- Part of the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab, their goal is to understand what leads people to believe what they find on the Web. With information, papers, and related links.
- Judith Edwards discusses three main aspects in the evaluation of Web resources; access, quality, and ease of use.
- Checklist and examples of what to look for, how to think, related links, and examples of deliberately misleading webpages.
- A journalist's guide to web searches. Covers when to use the library, obstacles to finding what you need on the web (including unreliable information), tips for searching, and links to content-rich sites.
- Paper/course written in 1999 with a 2002 update. Covers why evaluate, methods of evaluation, and why and how to teach it in the schools.
- Discusses accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency and coverage.
- Criteria to consider when evaluating Internet resources.
- Instructions for completing a form assessing authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency, and coverage.
- Developed to evaluate the quality of health-related websites aimed primarily at online health consumers. Evaluation criteria fall under the headings of Credibility, Content, Disclosure, Links, Design, Interactivity, Caveats and Differentiation.
- Describes how sites are chosen for listing in lii.org.
- Categorizes problematic sites and gives many examples of each type. Ends with a section which points to sites which give people accurate information as well as warnings about hoaxes and half-true stories.
- Online tutorial covering authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency, and coverage.
- Short page covering some basic points: Who is responsible? Is the URL appropriate? Who do they link to? Who links to them? Use common sense.
- Criteria and indicators for evaluating information found on sites, their quality, and reliability.
- Teaches the user how to think critically about World Wide Web resources.
- Checklists, instructions, tools and links to legal and factual research.
- 2001 academic conference proceedings; includes summaries (abstracts) of the accepted papers.
- Article written by Alan November for the September 1998 High School Principal Magazine.
- A few search techniques, using engines like Google, that you can use to check the authority of a website.
- Includes checklist form (PDF) that can be used to analyze web sites and pages.
- Thomson ISI sells a product called "Current Web Contents" which includes, in part, a premium collection of evaluated scholarly Web sites. This is how sites are selected for inclusion, and how they're evaluated.
- Three questions to answer while evaluating information and resources.
- An outline designed to provide HealthWeb participants uniform guidelines for selecting resources to be added to that directory.
- Guidelines for evaluating Internet sources, including a checklist to help assure credibility, accuracy, reasonableness, and supported claims.
- Five criteria used by Medweb to build their directory.
- Guidance on critical analysis of information sources, distinguishing scholarly and nonscholarly periodicals, and evaluating web sites.
- Introduction to a program which provides resources about Internet Literacy for teachers, parents and librarians.
- Questions to ask and tips for looking for authoritative information on the internet.
- Sections on gaining full access to materials which may be censored, understanding how to search, and evaluating what is found using the internet.
- Checklist used to grade web sites.
- Article by Donald T. Hawkins, September 1999. Compares "traditional" vs. web publishing and notes how the lack of a review process for web materials can lead to problems for the unwary. Has a site evaluation checklist and an additional reading
- Suggested criteria for evaluating Web resources for e-libraries.
- LLRX.com article providing strategies and tools to assist in evaluating Website content.
- Jana Allcock gives tips on judging the accuracy and validity of health information found using the internet.
- Research and recommendations to encourage the creation of low-barrier content and the careful evaluation of existing content to ensure that low-income and underserved individuals find a wide array of the online resources they want most. An Issue Brief a
- More than 2,600 average people were asked to rate the credibility of Web sites in 10 content areas.
- Learn how to evaluate information sources by doing the following exercise.
- Checklist for judging reliability of information. Links to other sites about the topic.
- Large annotated and hyperlinked list of pointers to criteria for evaluating information resources, particularly those on the Internet. Maintained by Alastair Smith.
- Concepts and questions to consider when looking at websites as a source of information.
- Short pdf file. Suggestions for evaluating anything you read.
- Scholarly paper argues that higher education students are naïve about the problem of misinformation, believe they can identify it, and do not make extra effort to check the sources of their information. Discusses sources and causes of misinformation an
- Addresses the question of whether or not consumers are well equipped to make informed decisions about the accuracy of information in technical fields such as health or finance.
- Looks at what teachers need consider before sharing a web site with students in their classrooms.
- Checklist of content and technical aspects to consider.
- Guide to assessing the source, the content, and the format of websites, the primary considerations being accuracy, authority, coverage, currency and objectivity. Checklists in HTML and pdf format available.
- Guide to evaluating sites by the "Four A's" - Accessible, Accurate, Appropriate, and Appealing.
- T. Matthew Ciolek reviews programming, procedural, structuring, bibliographical, evaluative and finally, organisational approaches to the quality of online information.
- Tutorial to help learn how to find and critically evaluate information resources. Sponsored by Western Michigan University Libraries.
- PDF document intended to be printed to use as a quick tool for page evaluation.
- Detailed criteria used for selecting resources for this UK guide to biomedical information.
- Contains evaluation criteria with examples that can be used by educators. Gives suggestions for successful Internet assignments.
- Bullet point notes of strategies and factors to consider when evaluating resources.
- A series of website evaluation surveys, one each at the elementary, middle, and secondary school levels, plus many links of website evaluation.
- Created by a library media specialist, contains guides for rating the curriculum content and graphic design of web sites.
- [Book review.] Web of Deception offers an exposé of the types of chicanery, fraud and misinformation that's all over the Internet and suggests what to do if you get stung by it.
- Seeks to provide the necessary guidelines to use to determine the quality and accuracy of the information found on the World Wide Web. A document from the University of Maryland libraries.
- By Dr. T.Matthew Ciolek. Online resources relevant for evaluation, development and administration of high quality factual/scholarly networked information systems.
- Refereed article written by Alastair Smith which surveys criteria published on the Web and in the print literature and proposes a set of criteria (a toolbox) that can be used by librarians and users to evaluate Internet information sources.
- Checklists and sample sites, from LLRX.com.
- Consumers WebWatch, a project of Consumers Union, publishes research and journalism on credibility issues that matter to consumers, and recommends Web-wide guidelines to address widespread problems of credibility and trust.
- Eight ways of checking information on web sites.
- Principles applicable to physical information sources as well as web-based ones.
- An interactive tutorial on evaluating the quality of internet resources.
- An essay that considers peer review, author's credentials, writing style, and plausibility of information.
- Provides a checklist and links to related materials.

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