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• Computers: Education: Internet  (100)
• Computers: Internet: Web Design and Development: Web Usability  (120)
• Reference: Bibliography: Digital Resources  (2)
• Reference: Libraries: Library and Information Science: Digital Library Development  (109)
• Reference: Libraries: Library and Information Science: User Services: Library Instruction  (31)
• Science: Science in Society: Skeptical Inquiry: Critical Thinking  (28)
• Society: Issues: Fraud  (193)

Better Read That Again: Web Hoaxes and Misinformation - - 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.

Cal Poly State University - Information Competence Tutorials - - Nine tutorials provide guidance and practical exercises on information competence.

Caught in the Web - - 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.

Checklist for the Evaluation of Information - - Printable form with hyperlinks to explanations of the criteria used, namely authority, content and scope, design and functionality.

Choice Framework - - 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.

Consumer Reports: e-Ratings - What We Look For - - Expectations for site credibility, usability, and content.

Consumer WebWatch - - 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.

Contentbank.org - The Search for High-Quality Online Content for Low-Income and Underserved Communities: Evaluating and Producing What's Needed - - 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 and Action Plan by The Children's Partnership.

Cornell University Library - Evaluating Research Materials - - Guidance on critical analysis of information sources, distinguishing scholarly and nonscholarly periodicals, and evaluating web sites.

Criteria for Evaluating Web Sites - - Checklist of content and technical aspects to consider.

Critically Analyzing Information Sources - - Principles applicable to physical information sources as well as web-based ones.

10 C's For Evaluating Internet Sources - - Criteria to consider when evaluating Internet resources.

Don't Believe Everything You Read: Ideas for Reading Critically - - Short pdf file. Suggestions for evaluating anything you read. [PDF.

An Educators' Guide to Credibility and Web Evaluation - - 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.

Emory MedWeb: Guidelines for inclusion of sites in MedWeb - - Five criteria used by Medweb to build their directory.

Evaluate your Sources - - Checklist for judging reliability of information. Links to other sites about the topic.

Evaluating Credibility of Information on the Internet - - An essay that considers peer review, author's credentials, writing style, and plausibility of information. [PDF.

Evaluating Electronic Resources - - Suggested criteria for evaluating Web resources for e-libraries.

Evaluating Information on the Web - - Online tutorial covering authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency, and coverage.

Evaluating Internet Research Sources - - Guidelines for evaluating Internet sources, including a checklist to help assure credibility, accuracy, reasonableness, and supported claims.

Evaluating Internet Resources - - Bullet point notes of strategies and factors to consider when evaluating resources.

Evaluating Quality - - Questions to ask and tips for looking for authoritative information on the internet.

Evaluating Quality on the Net - - Criteria and indicators for evaluating information found on sites, their quality, and reliability.

Evaluating the Quality of Information on the Internet - - Checklists, instructions, tools and links to legal and factual research.

Evaluating the Quality of Web Sites - - 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.

Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply and Questions to Ask - - Includes checklist form (PDF) that can be used to analyze web sites and pages.

Evaluating Web Resources - - Concepts and questions to consider when looking at websites as a source of information.

Evaluating Web Resources - - Modules for evaluating all manner of sites. Includes questions and criteria lists, plus links to example pages for discussion.

Evaluating Web Sites - - 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.

Evaluating Web Sites - - A brief introduction to the World Wide Web as a source of information, and evaluating sites for educational content.

Evaluating Web Sites for Educational Uses - - 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.

Evaluating World Wide Web Sites - - Instructions for completing a form assessing authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency, and coverage.

Evaluation of Information Sources - - Contains pointers to criteria for evaluating information resources, particularly those on the Internet.

Exemplary Practices in Teaching Web Evaluation - - Presentation given in 1998. Covers why evaluation of web resources is necessary, and gives criteria for scrutinizing web materials. Provides links to many related and supporting sites.

Five Criteria For Evaluating Web Pages - - Discusses accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency and coverage.

Getting It Right: Verifying Sources on the Net - - LLRX.com article providing strategies and tools to assist in evaluating Website content.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, or Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources - - Contains evaluation criteria with examples that can be used by educators. Gives suggestions for successful Internet assignments.

HealthWeb Selection Methodology & Guidelines - - An outline designed to provide HealthWeb participants uniform guidelines for selecting resources to be added to that directory.

Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide! - - Learn how to evaluate information sources by doing the following exercise.

How To Evaluate A Web Site - - Checklists and sample sites, from LLRX.com.

Information Quality - - Sections on gaining full access to materials which may be censored, understanding how to search, and evaluating what is found using the internet.

Information Quality WWW Virtual Library - Evaluation of Information Sources - - Large annotated and hyperlinked list of pointers to criteria for evaluating information resources, particularly those on the Internet. Maintained by Alastair Smith.

The Internet Guide to Construction of Quality Online Resources - - By Dr. T.Matthew Ciolek. Online resources relevant for evaluation, development and administration of high quality factual/scholarly networked information systems.

ISI Web Site Selection Criteria - - 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.

Johns Hopkins University Library - Evaluating Information Found on the Internet - - Detailed list of considerations.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Critical Evaluation Surveys - - A series of website evaluation surveys, one each at the elementary, middle, and secondary school levels, plus many links of website evaluation.

Librarians' Index to the Internet - Selection Criteria - - Describes how sites are chosen for listing in lii.org.

Misinformation Through the Internet - - 2001 academic conference proceedings; includes summaries (abstracts) of the accepted papers.

National Network of Libaries of Medicine - Evaluating Health Web Sites - - Jana Allcock gives tips on judging the accuracy and validity of health information found using the internet.

Producing Quality Web Page Content - - 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.

Publishers Wanted, No Experience Necessary: Information Quality on the Web - - Research librarian elaborates on five characteristics of superior web sites: timeliness, expediency, accuracy, objectivity, and authenticit.

The Quality Information Checklist - - Eight ways of checking information on web sites.

Research Edge: Evaluate Information - - Tutorial from the University of Wollongong Library.

Resource Evaluation for BIOME - - Detailed criteria used for selecting resources for this UK guide to biomedical information.

Resource Selection and Information Evaluation - - Three questions to answer while evaluating information and resources.

Searchpath. WNEC Library Tutorial - - Tutorial to help learn how to find and critically evaluate information resources. Sponsored by Western Michigan University Libraries.

T is for Thinking - - Web site evaluation guide with resources and links.

Teaching Zack to Think - - Article written by Alan November for the September 1998 High School Principal Magazine.

Testing the Surf: Criteria for Evaluating Internet Information Resources - - 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.

Tips for Evaluating Websites (Ohio ESL) - - A few search techniques, using engines like Google, that you can use to check the authority of a website.

UBC Library - Criteria for Evaluating Internet Resources - - Checklist with "So What?" buttons to clarify why you'd want to have an answer to the various questions.

UCLA College Library: Thinking Critically about WWW Resources - - Teaches the user how to think critically about World Wide Web resources.

University of Alberta Libraries - Critical Evaluation of Resources on the Internet - - Bulleted list of questions to review while checking out a website.

Using a Web Site With Your Classes - - Looks at what teachers need consider before sharing a web site with students in their classrooms.

Viewing Results and Evaluating Quality - - Questions and criteria to cover. Part of a larger tutorial on effective web searching for college students, written by a research librarian.

Web Awareness Canada - - Introduction to a program which provides resources about Internet Literacy for teachers, parents and librarians.

The Web Credibility Project - - 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.

Web Page Evaluation - - Provides a checklist and links to related materials.

Web Page Evaluation Checklist - - PDF document intended to be printed to use as a quick tool for page evaluation. [PDF.

Web Page Evaluation Worksheet - - Checklist used to grade web sites.

Web Searching, Web Page Evaluation, and Research Strategies - - A guide to Web research and evaluation strategies, written for first year rhetoric and composition students.

Webpage Evaluation for Librarians - - Checklist and examples of what to look for, how to think, related links, and examples of deliberately misleading webpages.

Webserch - Evaluate Web Resources - - 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.

WWW Cyberguides - - Created by a library media specialist, contains guides for rating the curriculum content and graphic design of web sites.

Yahooligans! - Evaluating Web Sites - - Guide to evaluating sites by the "Four A's" - Accessible, Accurate, Appropriate, and Appealing.

Studies in Media and Information Literacy Education - The problem of online misinformation and the role of schools - - "Amid all the excellent free information that is available online, there are many damagingly false assertions and misleading arguments... Some prominent individuals and institutions are calling for schools to prepare young people to identify reliable information online." (February, 2005)

Consumer WebWatch: How Consumers and Experts Rate Credibility on the Web - - More than 2,600 average people were asked to rate the credibility of Web sites in 10 content areas. (October, 2002)

Web of Deception: Misinformation on the Internet - - [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. (2002)

The Good, The Bad And The Useless: Evaluating Internet Resources - - Judith Edwards discusses three main aspects in the evaluation of Web resources; access, quality, and ease of use. (July, 1998)

Web-Based Information in the Context of Higher Education - - 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 and how it can be combatted. (1998)

Six Quests for The Electronic Grail: Current Approaches to Information Quality in WWW Resources - - T. Matthew Ciolek reviews programming, procedural, structuring, bibliographical, evaluative and finally, organisational approaches to the quality of online information. (June, 1996)