As a Readers' Services Librarian, I am bothered of how students assess every information source they access online. It's really alarming that there are some students who will just easily copy and paste information without considering its authority, accuracy, validity, and recency. There is a lot of dogs out there and you know it's hard to identify what is fake and not. With that, I would like you guys to check these following links for you to be guided on how to effectively evaluate information sources on the web...
- Building Sustainable Collections of Free Third-Party Web Resources June 2001 (Louis A. Pitschmann. Council for Library and Information Resources.)
- Checklist for Evaluating Web Resources (University of Southern Maine Library)
- Criteria for Evaluating Internet Resources (Aleteia Greenwood. Science and Engineering Reference Librarian. University of British Columbia.)
- Critical Evaluation of Resources on the Internet (University of Alberta Libraries)
- Evaluation Information Found on the Internet (The Sheridan Libraries of the Johns Hopkins University)
- Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to apply and Questions to ask (Library. University of California, Berkeley)
- Evaluation of Information Sources. [PDF format: 39.3 KB/4 pp.] (World Wide Web Virtual Library, maintained by Alastair Smith)
- How Should We Look at Internet Information? (Hope Tillman, Director of Libraries, Babson College.)
- The Internet: Window to the World or Hall of Mirrors? Information Quality in the Networked Environment (Jack Solok)
- "The Six Quests for the Electronic Grail: Current Approaches to Information Quality in WWW Resources." InReview Informatique et Statistique dans les Sciences humaines (RISSH)", 1996. No. 1-4. Centre Informatique de Philosophie et Lettres, Universite de Liege, Belgium, pp.45-71.
- Testing the Surf: Criteria for Evaluating Internet Information Resources. (Alastair G. Smith), The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 8, no. 3 (1997). (Refereed Article)
- Technomonitor: What is Credible Information? by Donald T. Hawkins. In ONLINE Magazine, September 1999.
You can also follow these useful link:
References:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/business/beonline/selectbib.html
http://catawba.libguides.com/c.php?g=459566
