HANDOUT - Web Research and Evaluation

Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet
/Evaluate.html
UC Berkeley - Teaching Library Internet Workshops

Why We Need to Evaluate What We Find on the Internet
http://kathyschrock.net/planting2/pdf/group3.pdf
Developed by D. Scott Brandt, Associate Professor at Purdue University. This short and precise guide educates internet searchers on how to weed out all of the mis-information on the Net.

Critically Analyzing Information Sources
http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/skill26.htm
An easy to navigate tutorial on analyzing sources, both print and online provided by the Olin-Kroch-Uris Libraries at Cornell University.

Evaluating Web Resources
http://www.widener.edu/Tools_Resources/Libraries/Wolfgram_
Memorial_Library/Evaluate_Web_Pages/659
From Widener University/Wolfgram Memorial Library. This guide is more detailed and covers specific subject matters separately, like evaluating news web pages, information web pages, or business web pages.