INTERNET EVALUATION

Try these sites for a wealth of information on how to evaluate the "Wild West" of Internet information:

Internet Detective

A two hour online tutorial that shows you how to determine what is and is not a reliable website.  You need to register online, but there is no cost involved:
http://www.sosig.ac.uk/desire/internet-detective.html

Evaluating Internet Sites 101

A useful interactive tutorial:
http://library.albany.edu/usered/webeval/

OWL Writing Lab on Evaluating Sources of Information

A short tutorial and online bibliography from Purdue University: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/hypertext/EvalSrcW/e-resources.html

Evaluating Information Found on the Internet

Helpful instruction from the library at Johns Hopkins University: http://www.library.jhu.edu/researchhelp/general/evaluating/index.html

Guidelines for Evaluating Web Sites

This is from George Mason University and provides lots of links to sites that explain the whys and hows of evaluation:
http://mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/webcritique.htm

Evaluating Internet Research Sources

A chapter from Robert Harris' book Web Quester. Solid information in a relatively small space.
http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm

If you're still into paper, try the very helpful book:

Janet E. Alexander and Marsh Ann Tate. Web Wisdom: How to Evaluate and Create Information Quality on the Web (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1999).

Updated 11 February, 2008