EVALUATING INTERNET SITES

Evaluating Information Found On the Internet                      
This is a very useful site which provides a good description of evaluation criteria based on authorship, point of view or bias, publishing body,  verifiability, and currency. As well as the basic information on evaluation, there are useful links to other sites, such as "Information on Copyright and Intellectual Property," "Understanding and Decoding URLs" and "How to cite electronic information." 

Evaluating Information Tutorial
This site from the University of North Carolina contains a tutorial and at the end has a basic list of evaluation questions that may be printed as a guide when searching on the Internet.

The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: or Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources
This site has examples of sites, many of which contain misleading information to highlight the importance of evaluating web sites. It has clear evaluation criteria in an easy to use format.

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Last updated 08/26/07