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Evaluating Web Sites for Educational Uses  - http://www.unc.edu/cit/guides/irg-49.html  This site contains a list of articles from librarians and other information specialists on Web evaluations. In addition, a checklist for evaluating a Web site of as a potential education resource is included.  Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Critical Evaluation Surveys  - http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html  A series of website evaluation surveys, one each at the elementary, middle, and secondary school levels, plus many links of website evaluation.  Evaluating Internet Resources  - http://library.albany.edu/internet/evaluate.html  Bullet point notes of strategies and factors to consider when evaluating resources.  Evaluating Web Sites  - http://www.ehhs.cmich.edu/~pstohrer/eval.html  A brief introduction to the World Wide Web as a source of information, and evaluating sites for educational content.  The Internet Guide to Construction of Quality Online Resources  - http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-InfoQuality.html  By Dr. T.Matthew Ciolek. Online resources relevant for evaluation, development and administration of high quality factual/scholarly networked information systems.  Evaluating Quality on the Net  - http://www.hopetillman.com/findqual.html  Criteria and indicators for evaluating information found on sites, their quality, and reliability.  10 C's For Evaluating Internet Sources  - http://www.uwec.edu/library/Guides/tencs.html  Criteria to consider when evaluating Internet resources.  Using a Web Site With Your Classes  - http://www.teach-nology.com/tutorials/web_classes/  Looks at what teachers need consider before sharing a web site with students in their classrooms.  Choice Framework  - http://www.geocities.com/choiceframework/  Developed to evaluate the quality of health-related websites aimed primarily at online health consumers. Evaluation criteria fall under the headings of Credibility, Content, Disclosure, Links, Design, Interactivity, Caveats and Differentiation.  Webpage Evaluation for Librarians  - http://www.lib.montana.edu/~bcoon/web-eval.html  Checklist and examples of what to look for, how to think, related links, and examples of deliberately misleading webpages.  Web Searching, Web Page Evaluation, and Research Strategies  - http://www.slu.edu/departments/english/research/  A guide to Web research and evaluation strategies, written for first year rhetoric and composition students.  How To Evaluate A Web Site  - http://www.llrx.com/features/webeval.htm  Checklists and sample sites, from LLRX.com.  Getting It Right: Verifying Sources on the Net  - http://www.llrx.com/features/verifying.htm  LLRX.com article providing strategies and tools to assist in evaluating Website content.  Resource Selection and Information Evaluation  - http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~janicke/Evaluate.html  Three questions to answer while evaluating information and resources.  Caught in the Web  - http://newslink.org/web/  A journalist's guide to web searches. Covers when to use the library, obstacles to finding what you need on the web (including unreliable information), tips for searching, and links to content-rich sites.  Web Page Evaluation  - http://www.hu.mtu.edu/teachtech/search2.htm  Provides a checklist and links to related materials.  Evaluating Internet Research Sources  - http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm  Guidelines for evaluating Internet sources, including a checklist to help assure credibility, accuracy, reasonableness, and supported claims.  WWW Cyberguides  - http://www.cyberbee.com/guides.html  Created by a library media specialist, contains guides for rating the curriculum content and graphic design of web sites.  UCLA College Library: Thinking Critically about WWW Resources  - http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/index.htm  Teaches the user how to think critically about World Wide Web resources.  The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, or Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources  - http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/eval.html  Contains evaluation criteria with examples that can be used by educators. Gives suggestions for successful Internet assignments.  Evaluate your Sources  - http://www.library.vcu.edu/help/evaluate.html  Checklist for judging reliability of information. Links to other sites about the topic.  Evaluating the Quality of Information on the Internet  - http://www.virtualchase.com/quality/  Checklists, instructions, tools and links to legal and factual research.  Evaluating Quality  - http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/quality.html  Questions to ask and tips for looking for authoritative information on the internet.  Producing Quality Web Page Content  - http://www.walthowe.com/pubweb/qcontent/qcontent.html  Article explains how to give a web page content the mark of quality. Conversely, it helps point out what to look for in a quality site.  Evaluating Electronic Resources  - http://www.thelearningsite.net/cyberlibrarian/elibraries/eval.html  Suggested criteria for evaluating Web resources for e-libraries.  Better Read That Again: Web Hoaxes and Misinformation  - http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/sep00/piper.htm  Categorizes problematic sites and gives many examples of each type. Ends with a section which points to sites which give people accurate information as well as warnings about hoaxes and half-true stories.  Publishers Wanted, No Experience Necessary: Information Quality on the Web  - http://www.llrx.com/columns/quality.htm  Research librarian elaborates on five characteristics of superior web sites: timeliness, expediency, accuracy, objectivity, and authenticity  The Quality Information Checklist  - http://www.quick.org.uk/menu.htm  Eight ways of checking information on web sites.  Testing the Surf: Criteria for Evaluating Internet Information Resources  - http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v8/n3/smit8n3.html  Refereed article written by Alastair Smith which surveys criteria published on the Web and in the print literature and proposes a set of criteria (a toolbox) that can be used by librarians and users to evaluate Internet information sources.  Don't Believe Everything You Read: Ideas for Reading Critically  - http://www.iusb.edu/~libg/pdf/critical-reading.pdf  Short pdf file. Suggestions for evaluating anything you read.  Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply and Questions to Ask  - http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html  Includes checklist form (PDF) that can be used to analyze web sites and pages.  Evaluating Credibility of Information on the Internet  - http://www.rbs0.com/credible.pdf  An essay that considers peer review, author's credentials, writing style, and plausibility of information.  Evaluating Web Sites  - http://www.lib.umd.edu/UES/evaluate.html  Seeks to provide the necessary guidelines to use to determine the quality and accuracy of the information found on the World Wide Web. A document from the University of Maryland libraries.  Information Quality  - http://ils.unc.edu/~fents/310/  Sections on gaining full access to materials which may be censored, understanding how to search, and evaluating what is found using the internet.  Web Awareness Canada  - http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/special_initiatives/web_awareness/index.cfm  Introduction to a program which provides resources about Internet Literacy for teachers, parents and librarians.  Web Page Evaluation Checklist  - http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/EvalForm.pdf  PDF document intended to be printed to use as a quick tool for page evaluation.  Checklist for the Evaluation of Information  - http://www3.baylor.edu/~Billie_Peterson/checklist.html  Printable form with hyperlinks to explanations of the criteria used, namely authority, content and scope, design and functionality.  Resource Evaluation for BIOME  - http://biome.ac.uk/guidelines/eval/  Detailed criteria used for selecting resources for this UK guide to biomedical information.  An Educators' Guide to Credibility and Web Evaluation  - http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/wp/credibility/index.html  Paper/course written in 1999 with a 2002 update. Covers why evaluate, methods of evaluation, and why and how to teach it in the schools.  Consumer WebWatch  - http://www.consumerwebwatch.org/  Consumers WebWatch, a project of Consumers Union, publishes research and journalism on credibility issues that matter to consumers, and recommends Web-wide guidelines to address widespread problems of credibility and trust.  Consumer Reports: e-Ratings - What We Look For  - http://www.consumerreports.org/main/detailv2.jsp?WebLogicSession=P9VN6U9v2ZeILeW6GjX2zjTIBlAwQRt3o1TP0qE0ashSj3EbU9uG%7C4394362522231317306/169937904/6/7005/7005/7002/7002/7005/-1%7C2869650293279058925/169937910/6/7005/7005/7002/7002/7005/-1&CONTENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=871&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=735&bmUID=1070943721968  Expectations for site credibility, usability, and content.  Librarians' Index to the Internet - Selection Criteria  - http://lii.org/search/file/pubcriteria  Describes how sites are chosen for listing in lii.org.  University of Alberta Libraries - Critical Evaluation of Resources on the Internet  - http://www.library.ualberta.ca/guides/criticalevaluation/  Bulleted list of questions to review while checking out a website.  Johns Hopkins University Library - Evaluating Internet information  - http://www.library.jhu.edu/elp/useit/evaluate/  Detailed list of considerations.  Information Quality WWW Virtual Library - Evaluation of Information Sources  - http://www2.vuw.ac.nz/staff/alastair_smith/evaln/evaln.htm  Large annotated and hyperlinked list of pointers to criteria for evaluating information resources, particularly those on the Internet. Maintained by Alastair Smith.  UBC Library - Criteria for Evaluating Internet Resources  - http://www.library.ubc.ca/home/evaluating/  Checklist with "So What?" buttons to clarify why you'd want to have an answer to the various questions.  Emory MedWeb: Guidelines for inclusion of sites in MedWeb  - http://www.medweb.emory.edu/MedWeb/history.htm  Five criteria used by Medweb to build their directory.  HealthWeb Selection Methodology & Guidelines  - http://healthweb.org/guidelines.cfm  An outline designed to provide HealthWeb participants uniform guidelines for selecting resources to be added to that directory.  Evaluating Web Resources  - http://libweb.sonoma.edu/assistance/eval.html  Concepts and questions to consider when looking at websites as a source of information.  National Network of Libaries of Medicine - Evaluating Health Web Sites  - http://nnlm.gov/scr/conhlth/evalsite.htm  Jana Allcock gives tips on judging the accuracy and validity of health information found using the internet.  The Good, The Bad And The Useless: Evaluating Internet Resources  - http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue16/digital/  Judith Edwards discusses three main aspects in the evaluation of Web resources; access, quality, and ease of use.  Webserch - Evaluate Web Resources  - http://www.clubi.ie/webserch/resources/  Guide to assessing the source, the content, and the format of websites, the primary considerations being accuracy, authority, coverage, currency and objectivity. Checklists in HTML and pdf format available.  Six Quests for The Electronic Grail: Current Approaches to Information Quality in WWW Resources  - http://www.ciolek.com/PAPERS/six-quests1996.html  T. Matthew Ciolek reviews programming, procedural, structuring, bibliographical, evaluative and finally, organisational approaches to the quality of online information.  Contentbank.org - The Search for High-Quality Online Content for Low-Income and Underserved Communities: Evaluating and Producing What's Needed  - http://www.contentbank.org/addition_research.asp  Research and recommendations to encourage the creation of low-barrier content and the careful evaluation of existing content to ensure that low-income and underserved individuals find a wide array of the online resources they want most. An Issue Brief and Action Plan by The Children's Partnership.  ISI Web Site Selection Criteria  - http://www.isinet.com/essays/selectionofmaterialforcoverage/23.html/  Thomson ISI sells a product called "Current Web Contents" which includes, in part, a premium collection of evaluated scholarly Web sites. This is how sites are selected for inclusion, and how they're evaluated.  Evaluating the Quality of Web Sites  - http://www.life.uiuc.edu/edtech/evaluate.html  Short page covering some basic points: Who is responsible? Is the URL appropriate? Who do they link to? Who links to them? Use common sense.  Web of Deception: Misinformation on the Internet  - http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/2160991  [Book review.] Web of Deception offers an exposé of the types of chicanery, fraud and misinformation that's all over the Internet and suggests what to do if you get stung by it.  Tips for Evaluating Websites (Ohio ESL)  - http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/help/evalTips.html  A few search techniques, using engines like Google, that you can use to check the authority of a website.  Cal Poly State University - Information Competence Tutorials  - http://multiweb.lib.calpoly.edu/infocomp/modules/index.html  Nine tutorials provide guidance and practical exercises on information competence.  Web-Based Information in the Context of Higher Education  - http://www.emeraldinsight.com/pdfs/17308cb2.pdf  Scholarly paper argues that higher education students are naïve about the problem of misinformation, believe they can identify it, and do not make extra effort to check the sources of their information. Discusses sources and causes of misinformation and how it can be combatted.  Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide!  - http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/hoax/index.htm  Learn how to evaluate information sources by doing the following exercise.  Criteria for Evaluating Web Sites  - http://www.evalutech.sreb.org/criteria/web.asp  Checklist of content and technical aspects to consider.  Searchpath. WNEC Library Tutorial  - http://wwwmail.wnec.edu/library/  Tutorial to help learn how to find and critically evaluate information resources. Sponsored by Western Michigan University Libraries.  Critically Analyzing Information Sources  - http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/skill26.htm  Principles applicable to physical information sources as well as web-based ones.  Misinformation Through the Internet  - http://www.ccsr.cse.dmu.ac.uk/conferences/ccsrconf/ethicomp2001/abstracts/vedder.html  2001 academic conference proceedings; includes summaries (abstracts) of the accepted papers.  Five Criteria For Evaluating Web Pages  - http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/webcrit.html  Discusses accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency and coverage.  Teaching Zack to Think  - http://www.anovember.com/articles/zack.html  Article written by Alan November for the September 1998 High School Principal Magazine.  Web Page Evaluation Worksheet  - http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/evaluating_web.htm  Checklist used to grade web sites.  Evaluation of Information Sources  - http://www.vuw.ac.nz/staff/alastair_smith/evaln/evaln.htm  Contains pointers to criteria for evaluating information resources, particularly those on the Internet.  The Web Credibility Project  - http://credibility.stanford.edu/  Part of the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab, their goal is to understand what leads people to believe what they find on the Web. With information, papers, and related links.  Yahooligans! - Evaluating Web Sites  - http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/tg/evaluatingwebsites.html  Guide to evaluating sites by the "Four A's" - Accessible, Accurate, Appropriate, and Appealing.  Evaluating World Wide Web Sites  - http://www.iona.edu/library/research/wwweval.htm  Instructions for completing a form assessing authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency, and coverage.  Evaluating Information on the Web  - http://www.library.drexel.edu/resources/tutorials/webeval/intro.html  Online tutorial covering authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency, and coverage.  T is for Thinking  - http://www.ithaca.edu/library/training/think.html  Web site evaluation guide with resources and links.  Consumer WebWatch: How Consumers and Experts Rate Credibility on the Web  - http://www.consumerwebwatch.org/dynamic/web-credibility-reports-evaluate-abstract.cfm  More than 2,600 average people were asked to rate the credibility of Web sites in 10 content areas.  Cornell University Library - Evaluating Research Materials  - http://www.library.cornell.edu/newhelp/res_strategy/evaluating/index.html  Guidance on critical analysis of information sources, distinguishing scholarly and nonscholarly periodicals, and evaluating web sites.  Viewing Results and Evaluating Quality  - http://library.curtin.edu.au/staff/personal/gwpersonal/searchtut/eval.html  Questions and criteria to cover. Part of a larger tutorial on effective web searching for college students, written by a research librarian.  Evaluating Web Resources  - http://www.widener.edu/Tools_Resources/Libraries/Wolfgram_Memorial_Library/Evaluate_Web_Pages/659  Modules for evaluating all manner of sites. Includes questions and criteria lists, plus links to example pages for discussion.  Research Edge: Evaluate Information  - http://www.library.uow.edu.au/helptraining/tutorials/resedge/evaluate.html  Tutorial from the University of Wollongong Library.  Exemplary Practices in Teaching Web Evaluation  - http://lib.nmsu.edu/staff/susabeck/checs98.html  Presentation given in 1998. Covers why evaluation of web resources is necessary, and gives criteria for scrutinizing web materials. Provides links to many related and supporting sites.