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.

New Interlibrary Loan System

The Everest College Student Resource Center is now a member of SWIFT, which stands for Statewide Interlibrary Loan Fast Track. An interlibrary loan (ILL) is loan in which a patron can ask a library to borrow books from other libraries in the ILL network. For example, if you come to the Resource Center and we don't have the book you need, we can request it from other libraries that are members of SWIFT, if they have it. This network is a statewide interlibrary loan system, so we can request books from any library in the state of Colorado that is affiliated with SWIFT as a book lender. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Announcement

The online resources site for Everest College students has a new web address. It can now be found at the following link:

http://learningresources.everest.edu/

For those of you who have never used this site before, it provides numerous resources that you can use for your academic and career needs. When you access the main page, you can click on "General Resource Links" at the left, and it will take you to a listing of sites that have everything from online encyclopedias, career advice and government resources, to dictionaries and APA style guides.

Click on "Resource Links by Program" and it will lead you to web pages that have resources specifically geared toward each program Everest College offers. For example, clicking on the "Criminal Justice" link will take you to a listing of web sites you can access for research, such as criminal justice statistics, police organizations, and more.

An article about wikipedia you might want to check out

Wired.com has an interesting article about Virgil Griffith, a graduate student at Caltech who has built a database of millions of edits that have been made on wikipedia, the online encyclopedia your teachers want you to avoid. It turns out that Griffith has been able to track just exactly who has been editing the articles on wikipedia by tracing their IP addresses. The article can be found at the link below.

http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/08/wiki_tracker