Evaluating Information Found on the Internet

From Rsgc Library

5 Things to Look For When Evaluating a Web Site:

1. Availability
2. Credibility
3. Authorship
4. External Links
5. Legality

The previous section was adapted from Karen G. Schneider's Beyond Algorithms: A Librarian's Guide to Finding Web Sites You Can Trust. That article can be accessed here.

• Evaluating Information Found on the Internet from Johns Hopkins University Library.

• Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools from Cornell University.

• Evaluating Health Information on the Internet

A 16 minute long tutorial from the U.S. based National Library of Medicine. Requires Flash 6+. It discusses the following four issues:

1. Provider of Information
2. Funding for the site
3. Quality
4. Privacy