Thinking Critically About World Wide Web Resources

by Esther Grassian, UCLA College Library

http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/index.htm

ICYouSee: T is for Thinking

by John Henderson, Ithaca College Library

http://www.ithaca.edu/library/training/think.html

Criteria for Evaluation of Internet Information Resources

by Alastair Smith, VUW Department of Library and Information Studies, New Zealand

http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~agsmith/evaln/index.htm

Why we need to evaluate what we find on the Internet

Adapted from: The Savvy Student's Guide to Library Research. Judy Pask, Roberta Kramer, Scott Mandernack, Purdue University Undergraduate Library

http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/~techman/eval.html

Evaluation of Information

by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Illinois State University

http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~janicke/Eval.html

Evaluating Information on the Internet

by D. Scott Brandt, Purdue University Libraries

http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/~techman/evaluate.htm

Evaluating Quality on the Net

by Hope N. Tillman, Babson College

http://www.hopetillman.com/findqual.html

Search Engines and Link Searches

Hotbot

http://www.hotbot.com

Google

http://www.google.com

Altavista

http://www.altavista.com

Check who the site is registered to:

Register.com

http://register.com

Network Solutions

http://www.networksolutions.com

Fact or Humor?

Web Parodies

http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Humor/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/Web_Site_Parodies/

It is important to look carefully at a web address. Sometimes you may not be where you think you are.
Internet Sites: Which one is real?

The White House

http://www.whitehouse.gov

White House?

http://www.whitehouse.org