Evaulating resources
Evaluating websites
Authenticate ALL internet sources.
Check:
domain name
– educational institution, commercial, government, personal
publisher & author credentials
currency
– date published, updates
links
– validity, currency
accuracy
– citations, verify elsewhere
completeness
– extracted, full text
objectivity
– purpose, evidence of bias, advertisements, user-pay site.
To do
- Evaluating web pages (Monash University)
More info
- Evaluating web pages (University of California, Berkeley Library)
- Searching the internet (QUT, Study Smart)