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Evaluating and Citing Web Pages

Evaluating Web Sites for Educational Uses: Bibliography and Checklist
Bibliography on Evaluating Internet Resources: A bunch of links and a small checklist.http://www.unc.edu/cit/guides/irg-49.html

Evaluating Web Sites
THis site contextualizes the information search process a bit, and offers 4 link categories, including Global Sites, Instructional Sites, Resource Sites and Checklists.http://www.cbu.edu/~reasson/eval1.html

Evaluating Internet Resources
Binghampton University Libraries Internet Evaluation Site. Short and to the point. http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/search/evaluation.html

Choose the best search for your purpose
Nueva Library guide to search engines. http://NuevaSchool.org/~debbie/library/research/adviceengine.html

A Helpful Guide To Web Search Engines
A Helpful Guide To Web Search Engines: Tips on using search engines like AltaVista, Infoseek, Excite, Webcrawler, Lycos, HotBot, and Yahoo. Includes tricks and strategies, search engine rankings, and other useful searching utilities. http://www.monash.com/spidap.html

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
"The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources." Includes criteria, sample pages and a bibliography. http://lib.nmsu.edu/staff/susabeck/eval.html

6 Tickets to Web Evaluation
Michigan State's Evaluation checklisthttp://writing.msu.edu/station/main4.html

Evaluating Web Resources
Widener University Libraries excellent resource for various kinds of evaluation criteria. Includes teacher and student resources.http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webeval.htm

Evaluating Quality on the Net
A long in-depth discussion of evaluating the quality of Internet resources. This site is of particular interest for those concerned with criteria development. http://www.tiac.net/users/hope/findqual.html

Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources
A short but useful checklist from UCLA. http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/instruct/web/critical.htm

Beyond "Cool" Analog Models for Reviewing Digital Resources
An interesting page that compares evaluation techniques for printed and webbed resources. http://www.onlineinc.com/onlinemag/SeptOL/rettig9.html

Critical Evaluation Information
A good list of evaluation links. http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html

Bibliography on Evaluating Internet Resources
"This bibliography, originally created for a panel discussion at a regional conference in Wisconsin, has grown with the increasing number of documents which address the problems and issues related to teaching and using critical thinking skills to evaluate Internet resources. " http://www.lib.vt.edu/research/libinst/evalbiblio.html

Evaluation of information sources
As part of the larger "Information Quality WWW Virtual Library: The Internet Guide to Construction of Quality Online Resources" project (located at http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-InfoQuality.html), this page provides a large set of links to evaluation resources. Users who are interested in larger WWW design and quality issues may want to visit the parent site, which contains great links organized into lucid categories of interest. http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~agsmith/evaln/evaln.htm

Evaluation of information sources
A very good essay about evaluating Interenet resources. http://www.sccu.edu/faculty/R_Harris/evalu8it.htm




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