Evaluating Web Sources

1. Choose a website to evaluate.

Viper Activism: Prison Business

Human Rights Watch: Prisons

2. Check against the "Evaluation Criteria" (handout) by  Susan E. Beck, New Mexico State University Libraries.

3. If you need a further explanation of any of the items in the checklist, study "Evaluating Information Found on the Internet" by the Sheridan Librarys of the Johns Hopkins University.

4. If you know what information you are looking for but cannot find it, go to "Evaluating Information Found on the Internet" (Johns Hopkins U) and click on "The mechanics of determining authorship, publishing body, and currency on the Internet."

Resources

Web Site Evaluation: an annotated list of more links edited by Jon Harrison, Michigan State University Libraries