Brighton High School Media Center
Evaluating Internet Resources

Below are a number of web sites which are designed to help Internet users evaluate the validity of information on web sites.

Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages    
This information was originally published in College and Research Library News  July/Aug. 1998.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/webcrit.html

Louis Hoffman at the University of the Rockies
On his page “Determining If a Reference is a Scholarly Resource”, Dr. Hoffman includes evaluating Internet sources for scholarly content.
http://www.louis-hoffman-virtualclassroom.com/Psychology%20Resources/Writing%20Resources/Determining_Scholarly_Resources.htm

University of California Berkeley Library
Provide here are techniques to use and questions to ask when evaluating a web site.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html


Alan November :  Grammar of the Internet
At this site web educator Alan November provides links to a variety of web sites which explain many  aspects of the Internet.  "Search Tips and Tools" provides links to sites with information about searching the Web.
http://www.anovember.com/infolit/index.html