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 misinformation 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.