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 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