Web Site Evaluation

The aim of SIMILE is to provide a venue for scholarly articles which will bridge the subject areas of bibliographic instruction, information literacy, and media literacy. Directed at a readership in the fields of information/media studies, library science, and education, SIMILE will examine ways in which reference- and teacher-librarians, teachers, and other concerned professionals can integrate...

Consumer Reports WebWatch is the leader in investigative reporting on credibility and trust online.

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.

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

Information on the Internet is often inaccurate, incomplete, dated or entirely bogus. Learn how to recognize quality in information and detect high-tech trickery.

A guide to Web research and Web page evaluation strategies for first year rhetoric and composition students.

Essential guide to keeping current with Web-based resources for anyone who uses the web as a serious research tool.

Why evaluate Web pages (many examples of good and bad pages, Checklist for evaluating, Techniques for finding out who is responsible, who owns the domain name

guidelines for evaluating web sites

Learn to evaluate a site in terms of authorship, content, structure and integrity. Determine the value of a resource and its ability to meet your information needs.

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

An easy to use guide that focuses on web evaluation . Lists evaluation criteria with links to actual pages that illustrate each point. The Examples page can be used by teachers for an in-class activity. Also includes a Bibliography and Suggestions for teaching web evaluation.

The Stanford Web Credibility Project: Part of the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab our goal is to understand what leads people to believe what they find on the Web. We hope this knowledge will enhance Web site design and promote future research on Web credibility.

Effective searching techniques for finding what you want on the World Wide Web by Gillian Westera

The Contents of the Evaluating Sources Help Pages

A categorized, annotated list of over 2000 sites to help educators, teachers, and parents enhance instruction and support the curriculum.

Searchpath will help you learn to find and critically evaluate information resources. By increasing your information literacy skills, you can more effectively search, select, and evaluate those sources. This tutorial, sponsored by Western Michigan University Libraries, will prepare you to explore and research the online world.

'Fourteen year old: 'I'm working on a history paper about how the Holocaust never happened. I read about it on a Web page at Northwestern University.''

Teach yourself how to evaluate information sources.

Teach yourself how to think critically about Wolrd Wide Web resources.

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

This article explains how to give your web page content the mark of quality. When people find your page among many listings in a search engine, how can you get them to single your page out from the others.

Searches on the web produce vast quantities of unevaluated information. This article suggests how to determine quality sources and how to find them faster.

Building Quality non-WWW Resources [ftp, telnet, databases, mailing lists], Building Quality WWW Resources [design, development & administration of Web systems], Evaluation of Information Resources; Internet Studies [history, social, political and cultural issues of the Internet], Digital disasters, E-References & E-Citations, Citation Styles for Electronic Media, Data Quality Info...

A discussion of three main aspects of the evaluation of Web resources; access, quality, and ease of use.

A new book offers an eye-opening exposi of the varied types of chicanery, fraud and misinformation that's rife on the Internet -- and what to do if you get stung by it.