Note: For more information on Primary/Secondary sources, see IFL eText: Primary/Secondary

Is it necessary to evaluate every piece of information?  Or is some information automatically trustworthy?

What steps can you take to determine who is responsible for a piece of published information?

What methods would you use to ascertain an author's credibility?

When you are considering general information, such as daily news, what standards of reliability do you apply?
 

Evaluating Internet Sites 101 -- Carol Anne Germain and Laura Horn / University at Albany

Evaluating Internet Sites - Purdue Online Tutorial:

Evaluation

Evaluation Strategies

All Types of Sources

1. Evaluating Information: a Basic Checklist -- ALA
2. How to Critically Analyze Information Sources -- Cornell U

1. Evaluating Web Content -- U of Albany
2. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly: or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources -- New Mexico State U
3. Evaluating Web Resources -- Widener U
4. Evaluating Internet Research Sources -- Virtual Salt

Periodicals

1. Periodical Evaluation Chart -- Purdue U
2. How to Evaluate Journal Articles -- Colorado State U

Primary/Secondary Sources

1. Evaluating Primary Source Documents – Lafayette Coll
2. Guidelines for Evaluating Secondary Sources – Rutgers U

1. Collection at York College of Pennsylvania
2. Collection at Widener University

Detecting Inaccuracies in Information

Bias and Propaganda

1. Detecting Bias in the News -- Media Awareness Network
2. How To Detect Bias In News Media - FAIR
3. Propaganda Studies -- propagandacritic.com

Fraud and Misinformation

1. Consumer Web Watch -- explores the "credibility of information published on the World Wide Web."
2. Allwhois.com - searches for website ownership information.

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