Search Cites

Guides to evaluating library resources:

Evaluating What You Have Found, University of Waterloo Library
http://library.uwaterloo.ca/howto/howto28.pdf

How to Critically Analyze Information Sources, References Services Division of the Cornell University Library
http://urisref.library.cornell.edu/skill26.htm


Brief guides to evaluating resources on the World Wide Web:

Evaluating the Documents You Have Found on the World Wide Web, Gillian Westera
http://www.curtin.edu.au/curtin/library/staffpages/gwpersonal/senginestudy/zeval.htm

Evaluating World Wide Web Information, Ann Scholz, Purdue University Libraries
http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/research/classes/gs175/3gs175/evaluation.html

Practical Steps in Evaluating Internet Resources, Elizabeth Kirk, Milton S. Eisenhower Library, The Johns Hopkins University
http://milton.mse.jhu.edu:8001/research/education/practical.html

Significance, Iowa State University
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/signif.htm

Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources, Esther Grassian, UCLA College Library
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/instruct/critical.htm

Guides to evaluating resources on the World Wide Web:

Criteria for evaluation of Internet Information Resources, Alastair Smith, VUW Department of Library and Information Studies,
New Zealand
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~agsmith/evaln/index.htm

Evaluating information found on the Internet, Elizabeth Kirk, Milton S. Eisenhower Library, The Johns Hopkins University
http://milton.mse.jhu.edu:8001/research/education/net.html

Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators - Critical Evaluation Surveys, Kathleen Schrock
http://www.capecod.net/schrockguide/eval.htm

Teaching Critical Evaluation Skills for World Wide Web Resources, Jan Alexander and Marsha Tate, Wolfgram Memorial Library, Widener University
http://www.science.widener.edu/~withers/webeval.htm

Bibliographies for evaluating Web resources:

Bibliography on Evaluating Internet Resources, Nicole Auer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
http://refserver.lib.vt.edu/libinst/critTHINK.HTM

Evaluating Web Sites for Educational Uses: Bibliography and Checklist, Carolyn Kotlas, Institute for Academic Technology
http://www.iat.unc.edu/guides/irg-49.html

Information Quality WWW Virtual Library, T.M.Ciolek
http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-InfoQuality.html
The author does have a Web site that might be interesting for Search Engine study.
http://www.ciolek.com/SearchEngines.html

Web Evaluation Techniques: Bibliography, Jan Alexander and Marsha Tate, Wolfgram Memorial Library, Widener University
http://www.science.widener.edu/~withers/wbstrbib.htm

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Ernest Ackermann has granted written permission to use the materials in this book co-authered with Karen Hartman for the presentation "Searching and Researching the Net."  

The Book:
"Searching and Researching on the Internet & the World Wide Web." Ernest Ackermann & Karen Hartman. ISBN 1-887902-26-0. Published by Franklin, Beedle & Associates.

Entered on the Web May 7, 1998