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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.
http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/sep00/piper.htm
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Checklist for the Evaluation of Information
Printable form with hyperlinks to explanations of the criteria used, namely authority, content and scope, design and functionality.
http://www3.baylor.edu/~Billie_Peterson/checklist.html
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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.
http://www.geocities.com/choiceframework/
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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.
http://www.consumerwebwatch.org/
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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.
http://www.consumerwebwatch.org/dynamic/web-credibility-reports-evaluate-abstract.cfm
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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.
http://www.contentbank.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Research_From_The_Childrens_Partnership&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&CONTENTID=6646
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Cornell University Library - Evaluating Research Materials
Guidance on critical analysis of information sources, distinguishing scholarly and nonscholarly periodicals, and evaluating web sites.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/newhelp/res_strategy/evaluating/index.html
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Criteria for Evaluating Web Sites
Checklist of content and technical aspects to consider.
http://www.evalutech.sreb.org/criteria/web.asp
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Critically Analyzing Information Sources
Principles applicable to physical information sources as well as web-based ones.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/skill26.htm
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Evaluating Electronic Resources
Suggested criteria for evaluating Web resources for e-libraries.
http://www.thelearningsite.net/cyberlibrarian/elibraries/eval.html
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Evaluating Information on the Web
Online tutorial covering authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency, and coverage.
http://www.library.drexel.edu/resources/tutorials/webeval/intro.html
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Evaluating Internet Research Sources
Guidelines for evaluating Internet sources, including a checklist to help assure credibility, accuracy, reasonableness, and supported claims.
http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm
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Evaluating Quality
Questions to ask and tips for looking for authoritative information on the internet.
http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/quality.html
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Evaluating Quality on the Net
Criteria and indicators for evaluating information found on sites, their quality, and reliability.
http://www.hopetillman.com/findqual.html
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Evaluating the Quality of Information on the Internet
Checklists, instructions, tools and links to legal and factual research.
http://www.virtualchase.com/quality/
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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.
http://www.life.uiuc.edu/edtech/evaluate.html
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Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply and Questions to Ask
Includes checklist form (PDF) that can be used to analyze web sites and pages.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html
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Evaluating Web Resources
Concepts and questions to consider when looking at websites as a source of information.
http://libweb.sonoma.edu/assistance/eval.html
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Evaluating Web Sites
A brief introduction to the World Wide Web as a source of information, and evaluating sites for educational content.
http://www.ehhs.cmich.edu/~pstohrer/eval.html
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Evaluation of Information Sources
Contains pointers to criteria for evaluating information resources, particularly those on the Internet.
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/staff/alastair_smith/evaln/evaln.htm
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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.
http://lib.nmsu.edu/staff/susabeck/checs98.html
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Five Criteria For Evaluating Web Pages
Discusses accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency and coverage.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/webcrit.html
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Getting It Right: Verifying Sources on the Net
LLRX.com article providing strategies and tools to assist in evaluating Website content.
http://www.llrx.com/features/verifying.htm
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HealthWeb Selection Methodology & Guidelines
An outline designed to provide HealthWeb participants uniform guidelines for selecting resources to be added to that directory.
http://healthweb.org/guidelines.cfm
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Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide!
Learn how to evaluate information sources by doing the following exercise.
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/hoax/index.htm
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How To Evaluate A Web Site
Checklists and sample sites, from LLRX.com.
http://www.llrx.com/features/webeval.htm
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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.
http://ils.unc.edu/~fents/310/
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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.
http://www2.vuw.ac.nz/staff/alastair_smith/evaln/evaln.htm
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Johns Hopkins University Library - Evaluating Information Found on the Internet
Detailed list of considerations.
http://www.library.jhu.edu/researchhelp/general/evaluating/
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Librarians' Index to the Internet - Selection Criteria
Describes how sites are chosen for listing in lii.org.
http://lii.org/search/file/pubcriteria
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Misinformation Through the Internet
2001 academic conference proceedings; includes summaries (abstracts) of the accepted papers.
http://www.ccsr.cse.dmu.ac.uk/conferences/ccsrconf/ethicomp2001/abstracts/vedder.html
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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.
http://www.walthowe.com/pubweb/qcontent/qcontent.html
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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 authenticity
http://www.llrx.com/columns/quality.htm
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Research Edge: Evaluate Information
Tutorial from the University of Wollongong Library.
http://www.library.uow.edu.au/helptraining/tutorials/resedge/evaluate.html
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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.
http://www.ciolek.com/PAPERS/six-quests1996.html
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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."
http://www.utpjournals.com/jour.ihtml?lp=simile/issue17/levinefulltext.html
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T is for Thinking
Web site evaluation guide with resources and links.
http://www.ithaca.edu/library/training/think.html
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Teaching Zack to Think
Article written by Alan November for the September 1998 High School Principal Magazine.
http://www.anovember.com/articles/zack.html
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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.
http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/eval.html
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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.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue16/digital/
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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.
http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-InfoQuality.html
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The Quality Information Checklist
Eight ways of checking information on web sites.
http://www.quick.org.uk/menu.htm
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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.
http://credibility.stanford.edu/
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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.
http://www.library.ubc.ca/home/evaluating/
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UCLA College Library: Thinking Critically about WWW Resources
Teaches the user how to think critically about World Wide Web resources.
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/index.htm
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University of Alberta Libraries - Critical Evaluation of Resources on the Internet
Bulleted list of questions to review while checking out a website.
http://www.library.ualberta.ca/guides/criticalevaluation/
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Using a Web Site With Your Classes
Looks at what teachers need consider before sharing a web site with students in their classrooms.
http://www.teach-nology.com/tutorials/web_classes/
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Web Awareness Canada
Introduction to a program which provides resources about Internet Literacy for teachers, parents and librarians.
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/special_initiatives/web_awareness/index.cfm
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Web Searching, Web Page Evaluation, and Research Strategies
A guide to Web research and evaluation strategies, written for first year rhetoric and composition students.
http://www.slu.edu/departments/english/research/
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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.
http://www.clubi.ie/webserch/resources/
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WWW Cyberguides
Created by a library media specialist, contains guides for rating the curriculum content and graphic design of web sites.
http://www.cyberbee.com/guides.html
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