10 C's For Evaluating Internet Sources
   Criteria to consider when evaluating Internet resources.
   http://www.uwec.edu/library/Guides/tencs.html

An Educators' Guide to Credibility and Web Evaluation
   Paper/course written in 1999 with a 2002 update. Covers why evaluate, methods of evaluation, and why and how to teach it in the schools.
   http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/wp/credibility/index.html

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

Cal Poly State University - Information Competence Tutorials
   Nine tutorials provide guidance and practical exercises on information competence.
   http://multiweb.lib.calpoly.edu/infocomp/modules/index.html

Caught in the Web
   A journalist's guide to web searches. Covers when to use the library, obstacles to finding what you need on the web (including unreliable information), tips for searching, and links to content-rich sites.
   http://newslink.org/web/

Centre for Health Information Quality (CHIQ) - Quality Standards
   CHIQ is a development agency working to raise standards in health information for the public. Here are two sets of their guidelines. The first is for those producing health information (producers guidelines); the second is for those reviewing health inf
   http://www.hfht.org/chiq/quality.htm

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

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/

Consumer Reports: e-Ratings - What We Look For
   Expectations for site credibility, usability, and content.
   http://www.consumerreports.org/main/detailv2.jsp?WebLogicSession=P9VN6U9v2ZeILeW6GjX2zjTIBlAwQRt3o1TP0qE0ashSj3EbU9uG%7C4394362522231317306/169937904/6/7005/7005/7002/7002/7005/-1%7C2869650293279058925/169937910/6/7005/7005/7002/7002/7005/-1&CONTENT%3

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/

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/news/report3_credibilityresearch/stanfordPTL_abstract.htm

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 a
   http://www.contentbank.org/addition_research.asp

Cornell University Library - Evaluating Research Materials
   Guidance on critical analysis of information sources, distinguishing scholarly and nonscholarly periodicals, and evaluating web sites.
   http://campusgw.library.cornell.edu/newhelp/res_strategy/evaluating/index.html

Criteria for Evaluating Web Sites
   Checklist of content and technical aspects to consider.
   http://www.evalutech.sreb.org/criteria/web.asp

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

Don't Believe Everything You Read: Ideas for Reading Critically
   Short pdf file. Suggestions for evaluating anything you read.
   http://www.iusb.edu/~libg/pdf/critical-reading.pdf

Duke University Library - Evaluating Web Pages
   Annotated checklist.
   http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/evaluating_web.htm

Emory MedWeb: Guidelines for inclusion of sites in MedWeb
   Five criteria used by Medweb to build their directory.
   http://www.medweb.emory.edu/MedWeb/history.htm

Evaluate your Sources
   Checklist for judging reliability of information. Links to other sites about the topic.
   http://www.library.vcu.edu/help/evaluate.html

Evaluating Credibility of Information
   An essay that considers peer review, author's credentials, writing style, and plausibility of information.
   http://www.rbs0.com/credible.pdf

Evaluating Electronic Resources
   Suggested criteria for evaluating Web resources for e-libraries.
   http://www.thelearningsite.net/cyberlibrarian/elibraries/eval.html

Evaluating Information on the Web
   Online tutorial covering authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency, and coverage.
   http://www.library.drexel.edu/resources/tutorials/webeval/intro.html

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

Evaluating Internet Resources
   Bullet point notes of strategies and factors to consider when evaluating resources.
   http://library.albany.edu/internet/evaluate.html

Evaluating Quality
   Questions to ask and tips for looking for authoritative information on the internet.
   http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/quality.html

Evaluating Quality on the Net
   Criteria and indicators for evaluating information found on sites, their quality, and reliability.
   http://www.hopetillman.com/findqual.html

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

Evaluating Web Resources
   Concepts and questions to consider when looking at websites as a source of information.
   http://libweb.sonoma.edu/assistance/eval.html

Evaluating Web Sites
   Seeks to provide the necessary guidelines to use to determine the quality and accuracy of the information found on the World Wide Web. A document from the University of Maryland libraries.
   http://www.lib.umd.edu/UES/evaluate.html

Evaluating Web Sites for Educational Uses
   This site contains a list of articles from librarians and other information specialists on Web evaluations. In addition, a checklist for evaluating a Web site of as a potential education resource is included.
   http://www.unc.edu/cit/guides/irg-49.html

Evaluating World Wide Web Sites
   Instructions for completing a form assessing authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency, and coverage.
   http://www.iona.edu/library/research/wwweval.htm

Evaluating the Quality of Information on the Internet
   Checklists, instructions, tools and links to legal and factual research.
   http://www.virtualchase.com/quality/

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

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

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

Five Criteria For Evaluating Web Pages
   Discusses accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency and coverage.
   http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/webcrit.html

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

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

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

How To Evaluate A Web Site
   Checklists and sample sites, from LLRX.com.
   http://www.llrx.com/features/webeval.htm

ISI Web Site Selection Criteria
   Thomson ISI sells a product called "Current Web Contents" which includes, in part, a premium collection of evaluated scholarly Web sites. This is how sites are selected for inclusion, and how they're evaluated.
   http://www.isinet.com/essays/selectionofmaterialforcoverage/23.html/

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/

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

Internet Detective
   An interactive tutorial on evaluating the quality of internet resources.
   http://sosig.ac.uk/desire/internet-detective.html

Johns Hopkins University Library - Evaluating Internet information
   Detailed list of considerations.
   http://www.library.jhu.edu/elp/useit/evaluate/

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Critical Evaluation Surveys
   A series of website evaluation surveys, one each at the elementary, middle, and secondary school levels, plus many links of website evaluation.
   http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html

Librarians' Index to the Internet - Selection Criteria
   Describes how sites are chosen for listing in lii.org.
   http://lii.org/search/file/pubcriteria

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

National Network of Libaries of Medicine - Evaluating Health Web Sites
   Jana Allcock gives tips on judging the accuracy and validity of health information found using the internet.
   http://nnlm.gov/scr/conhlth/evalsite.htm

Online Technomonitor - What is Credible Information?
   Article by Donald T. Hawkins, September 1999. Compares "traditional" vs. web publishing and notes how the lack of a review process for web materials can lead to problems for the unwary. Has a site evaluation checklist and an additional reading
   http://www.infotoday.com/online/OL1999/technomonitor9.html

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

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

Research Edge: Citing and Evaluating the Internet
   Tutorial from the University of Wollongong Library.
   http://www.library.uow.edu.au/helptraining/tutorials/resedge/05/citeeval/index.html

Resource Evaluation for BIOME
   Detailed criteria used for selecting resources for this UK guide to biomedical information.
   http://biome.ac.uk/guidelines/eval/

Resource Selection and Information Evaluation
   Three questions to answer while evaluating information and resources.
   http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~janicke/Evaluate.html

Searchpath. WNEC Library Tutorial
   Tutorial to help learn how to find and critically evaluate information resources. Sponsored by Western Michigan University Libraries.
   http://wwwmail.wnec.edu/library/

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

T is for Thinking
   Web site evaluation guide with resources and links.
   http://www.ithaca.edu/library/training/think.html

Teaching Zack to Think
   Article written by Alan November for the September 1998 High School Principal Magazine.
   http://www.anovember.com/articles/zack.html

Testing the Surf: Criteria for Evaluating Internet Information Resources
   Refereed article written by Alastair Smith which surveys criteria published on the Web and in the print literature and proposes a set of criteria (a toolbox) that can be used by librarians and users to evaluate Internet information sources.
   http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v8/n3/smit8n3.html

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/

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

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

The Quality Information Checklist
   Eight ways of checking information on web sites.
   http://www.quick.org.uk/menu.htm

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/

Tips for Evaluating Websites (Ohio ESL)
   A few search techniques, using engines like Google, that you can use to check the authority of a website.
   http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/help/evalTips.html

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/

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

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/

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/

Viewing Results and Evaluating Quality
   Questions and criteria to cover. Part of a larger tutorial on effective web searching for college students, written by a research librarian.
   http://lisweb.curtin.edu.au/staff/personal/gwpersonal/searchtut/eval.html

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

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

Web Page Evaluation
   Provides a checklist and links to related materials.
   http://www.hu.mtu.edu/teachtech/search2.htm

Web Page Evaluation Checklist
   PDF document intended to be printed to use as a quick tool for page evaluation.
   http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/EvalForm.pdf

Web Page Evaluation Worksheet
   Checklist used to grade web sites.
   http://www.duke.edu/~de1/evaluate.html

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/

Web of Deception: Misinformation on the Internet
   [Book review.] Web of Deception offers an exposé of the types of chicanery, fraud and misinformation that's all over the Internet and suggests what to do if you get stung by it.
   http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/2160991

Web-Based Information in the Context of Higher Education
   Scholarly paper argues that higher education students are naïve about the problem of misinformation, believe they can identify it, and do not make extra effort to check the sources of their information. Discusses sources and causes of misinformation an
   http://www.emeraldinsight.com/pdfs/17308cb2.pdf

Webpage Evaluation for Librarians
   Checklist and examples of what to look for, how to think, related links, and examples of deliberately misleading webpages.
   http://www.lib.montana.edu/~bcoon/web-eval.html

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/

Yahooligans! - Evaluating Web Sites
   Guide to evaluating sites by the "Four A's" - Accessible, Accurate, Appropriate, and Appealing.
   http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/tg/evaluatingwebsites.html