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Evaluating Internet Sources & Sites: a tutorial

Resources

Listed below are more web sites for additional evaluation activities.

The White House web site http://thewhitehouse.org/
Insect Rights Activists http://www.throughwire.net/IRA/
Better Dog Food http://www.betterdogfood.com/about.html
AIDS.org http://www.aids.org/index.html
UNAIDS http://www.unaids.org/
NARAL http://www.naral.org

The following resources were used for the development of this tutorial. To learn more about evaluating Internet resources visit these sites.

Alexander, Janet E. and Marsha A. Tate. "Evaluating Web Pages: Links to examples of various concepts." Evaluating Web Resources. Oct. 2, 1998. Wolfgram Memorial Library, Widener University. Nov. 1998 <http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/examples.htm>

Alexander, Janet E. and Marsha A. Tate. "Web Resource Evaluation Techniques." Evaluating Web Resources. Nov. 6, 1998. Wolfgram Memorial Library, Widener University. Nov. 1998 <http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webeval/eval1198/index.htm>

Grassian, Esther. "Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources." Help Guides. Oct. 1,  1998. UCLA College Library. Nov. 1998 <http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/index.htm>

Jacobson, Trudi and Laura Cohen. "Evaluating Internet Resources." Internet Tutorials. Apr. 1996. University Libraries, University at Albany, SUNY. Nov. 1998 <http://library.albany.edu/internet/evaluate.html>

Kirk, Elizabeth E. "Evaluating Information found on the Internet." Research Help. 1996. The Sheridan Libraries, John Hopkins University. Nov. 1998 <http://www.library.jhu.edu/researchhelp/general/evaluating/index.html>

Walker, Janice R. "MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources."  The Columbia Guide to Online Style. 1998. Columbia University Press. Nov. 1998 <http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html>

For more information on evaluating information resources, visit this Purdue University Libraries web site: Information Evaluation Guide.

© Jennifer Sharkey (sharkeyj@purdue.edu), Assistant Professor of Library Science and Information Integration Librarian, Purdue University Libraries
This tutorial may not be altered, changed, or reproduced in any way without the permission of the author.
Created: November 1998; Posted: March 1999; Revised: 13/Dec/2004
Base URL: http://www.lib.purdue.edu/InternetEval/