How do I evaluate sources?

This page presents links to tutorials on criteria for evaluating Web sites.

• CSU Information Competence Tutorials
  Nine online tutorials providing guidance and practical exercises on Information Competence.


• Evaluating Web Sites for Educational Uses
  Compiled by librarian Carolyn Kotlas, this page includes a bibliography (with live links) of information in journals and on the web on evaluating web sites. Also includes a useful list of characteristics to look for when visiting a site.


• Evaluating Web Sites


• Evaluating World Wide Web Information
  Maintained at the Libraries of Purdue University.


• Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide!
  A UCLA College Library Instruction page.


• Six Criteria for Evaluating Web Sites
  Guidelines adapted with permission from: Kapoun, Jim. "Teaching Undergrads Web Evaluation: A guide for Library Instruction." College and Research Libraries News 59 (July/August 1998): 522-523 by CSUF librarians C Bednar, S Cox, J Hickok and E Housewright


• WWW Evaluation Resources
  Maintained by JoAnne Greenbaum in connection with her CSUF  Reading 290 (Critical Reading as Critical Thinking) class.