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Evaluating Internet Information: Virginia Tech Librarian, Robert Sebek, has included a very simple chart that gives brief evaluation criteria that must be used when citing a quality information web site for research purposes.

Evaluating Websites: A guide to evaluating legitimate websites on the Internet from Lesley University Library.

Good, The Bad and The Ugly, or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources: A guide on how to judge a website and decide if it is legitimate by Susan E. Beck, Head, Humanities & Social Sciences Services Department New Mexico State University Library.

Internet Detective: An interactive, online tutorial which provides an introduction to the issues of information quality on the Internet and teaches the skills required to evaluate critically the quality of an Internet resource. FREE login required.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: An excellent index of categorized, annotated sites (over 1600) for critically evaluating web resources.

Practical Steps in Evaluating Internet Resources: A guide to evaluating Internet resources in the categories of Authorship, Publishing Body and how current a source is.

Searching The Internet: Use this guide to learn how to use individual search engines and specialized subject indexes when browsing for topics or searching for information.

Teaching Undergrads WEB Evaluation: Provides accurate ways for undergraduate students to evaluate Web resources for their research.

Thinking Critically about WWW Resources: A critical guide prepared by Esther Grassian, Librarian at the UCLA College Library. She offers advice for choosing appropriate sites for research purposes, including some tips to consider when selecting Web sources such as Content, Evaluation, Source, Date, and Structure.

Web Style Guide: A thorough and accessible guide to Web design for developers around the world. Full-text of a textbook on web design.

Whois: Domain-Based research service where anyone can look up avilable domain names or keyword to find out who is responsible for the content of a particular website.

WWW Virtual Library: List of online resources relevant for evaluation, development and administration of high quality factual/scholarly sources on the Internet, maintained by the WWW VL Information Quality Group.

 
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