Thursday, August 30, 2007

Resources for Evaluating Web Sites

There are literally billions of web pages and sites on the Internet, with information on nearly every coceivable topic. So how does a student doing research evaluate if a web site is a reliable source of information? The following resources posted below set down general guidelines that will help you evaluate whether a web site is trustworthy or not. Feel free to look at them.

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html

http://www.library.jhu.edu/researchhelp/general/evaluating

And don't forget that there is a link to the Librarian's Internet Index on the right hand side of the page on this site.