Evaluating Information Found on the Internet

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*[http://www.library.jhu.edu/researchhelp/general/evaluating/ Evaluating Information Found on the Internet] from Johns Hopkins University Library.
*[http://www.library.jhu.edu/researchhelp/general/evaluating/ Evaluating Information Found on the Internet] from Johns Hopkins University Library.
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*[http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/webeval.html Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools]
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*[http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/webeval.html Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools] from Cornell University.
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from Cornell University.
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*[http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/webeval/webeval.html Evaluating Health Information on the Internet]
*[http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/webeval/webeval.html Evaluating Health Information on the Internet]

Current revision as of 02:08, 15 September 2006

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.

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
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