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The
Virtual Chase: Evaluating the Quality of Information on the Internet
-- Good overall internet research site, with section on informatiion quality
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Evaluating
the Quality of Information on the Internet: (Virtual Chase) Groups
that Alert the Public to Internet Fraud and bad information
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RDN
(Resource Discovery Network) Virtual Training Suite - Home Page
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WebSerch
- The Web Research Resource -- Solid general resource guide for research
on the Web; includes section on evaluation of web resources
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Texas Information Literacy Tutorial
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Information Literacy
Process (1999) -- USF; includes links on plagiarism and how to avoid
it
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Web
site evaluation, Berkeley
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LibrarySmart.com
- You Be the Judge! Evaluating Information for Reliability (see Evaluating
Info)
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Evaluating
Web Sites -- Lesley University, Cambridge -- with criteria and examples
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The
Good, The Bad and The Ugly, or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources
Beck, Susan. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly: or, Why It’s a Good Idea
to Evaluate Web Sources. 1997. http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/eval.html
(updated 2002)
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Beck, Evaluation
Criteria (updated 2002)
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Library
Selection Criteria for WWW Resources -- Carolyn Caywook, revised 12/99
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Information
Competence: Evaluating Sources -- from Calpoly; includes simple interactive
teaching module
Social
Science Information Gateway -- Evaluating Internet Resources for SOSIG
Sample
Evaluation of a scholarly site (National Library of Canada)
Evaluating Websites,
a tutorial -- Cleveland State (quiz at Step 4)
Iona College
(NY) -- Criteria with examples
Types
of pages (classification) NWMS
All Who Is -- Domain name / database
server search & confirmation
Better Who Is -- Domain name
search
Listing
of domain extensions
Domain name system
structure and delegation
Register.com
BOOK:
Find it Online: The Complete Guide to Online Research
by Alan M. Schlein [good looking chapter on web page credibility]
ARTICLES Useful for Source Cred project:
Stanford
Guidelines for Web credibility (documented with notes from study)
Stanford, again (scroll to
bottom for articles)
Prominence-Interpretation
Theory: Explaning how people assess credibility (Stanford)
The
Chronicle: View results (students need help with online research, March
2000)
Testing the
Surf, A. Smith, refereed article, 1997
Getting It Right,
S. I. Pacifici, from Law Library Resource Exchange, 2002
Publisheres Wanted...
G. Tyburski, LLRX, 1997
How to Evaluate
a Website, L. Humphries, 2002 LLRX
Web-based
misinformation in the context of higher education, P. J. Calvert,
Victoria Univ of Wellington, 1998, PDF format
Web
Credibility Project Planned 2001, article about Consumer's Union project
Consumer
WebWatch: How Consumers and Experts Rate Credibility on the Web (Pew Trust)
Stanford
Study: Consumer WebWatch: How Consumers and
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Consumer
WebWatch Research: Consumer Trust in E-Commerce Sites Low
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Consumer
WebWatch: How Consumers and Experts Rate Credibility on the Web
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Experts
Rate Credibility on the Web
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Websites
chosen for this Stanford study
Evaluating
Internet Research Sources -- Virtual Salt article, 1997
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OCLC
White Paper re librarians & web usage June 2002
Pew
Internet & American Life Project -- people's evaluation of credibility
of web-based health information
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Babson
College - Evaluating Quality on the Net, 1995/2000
Evaluating
Information on the Internet, S. Brandt, 1996
Lubans, J (1999)
Key Findings on Internet Use Among Students
Source
attribution & perception of online news stories
Virtual
Training Suite Evaluation Report, 2001 (RDN, UK)
Paradoxes of the Web: The Ethical Dimensions of Credibility, Library
Trends, Wntr 2001 v49 i3 p441, Introduction).
Stephen Bigelow's Can You trust the Web
McCroskey,
Cred, Mass Media -- Image of mass media news sources (article, 1975)
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McCroskey,
cred, dimensions, speech -- Measuring credibility of basic speech communication
instructors (article, 1974)
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McC,
Classroom Seating & CA -- (article, 1978)
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McCroskey,
pub list -- List of published articles, including source credibility
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DoD
Joint Course in Communications Class 98D Team 2 - References -- --
News, PR & Rhetoric; including ethos and credibility
Speech,
Power, cred, non-courtroom -- Speech styles, effectiveness, non-courtroom
setting, article, 1987, K. Green
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Six
Quests for The Electronic Grail -- (article, 1966)
Firehose>
-- article, 1995; need for neteditors and netreviewers
Eric Digest
K. Schrock, 1998
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Barnes
& Noble.com - Book Search (Book; Web Wisdom, Alexander & Tate,
1999)
Critical
Literacy (1996) --
Separating
the Wheat from the Chaff -- 1998, updated 2002, K. Schrock
Several
studies by Trochim, Cornell
SAMPLE Web pages:
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Macktm
(W/ EX - TWO TOWNS)
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The
Museum of Hoaxes
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Hoax
Websites: A-J
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Hoax
Websites: K-Z
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Hoax
Sites
Hoax
Websites
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Jacopo
di Poggibonsi
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BBC
News | BUSINESS | American investors 'mcwhortled'
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McWhortle
Enterprises, Inc.
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http://www.growthventure.com/grdi/
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Golden
Gate Tunnel
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January/February
2002 Newsletter, Museum of Hoaxes
Webquest
on the Reliability of Information on the WWW (biologycorner.com, with
examples)
Hoaxes/Legends,
from Walt's Forum
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Va
Tech - Bibliog on Eval Internet Res (includes checklists & hoaxes)
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UCLA
College Library Instruction Hoax? You Decide!
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Mankato,
MN Home Page (EX)
-
Hoaxes
- Better Read That Again: Web Hoaxes and Misinformation
Hoax sites,
Auburn U
Biased (commercial)
site on dyslexia (from Cleveland State tutorial; quiz at Step
4)
METHODS
Tests
and Measures in the Social Sciences: Keyword CR... -- UTA; including
six on credibility
MARGINALLY RELATED to source cred project
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vita-Descy
Internet
Research: Searching the World Wide Web -- Purdue, OWL, searching
WWW Virtual
Library, Information Quality
Overall quality of
web page
VaTech,
Types of Periodicals
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Searching
the Internet Effectively
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HyperLiteracy?
-- and disinformation...
Scholarly
vs. Popular journals, and more (Cornell)
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Links
to Library Web Resources -- ALA
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The
Chronicle: Opinion & Arts: January 21, 2000 (on search engines)
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Evaluate
the credibility of online information -- basic checklist from Searchengines.com
Example of
annotated bibliography
OTHER STUFF::::::::::::
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Writing:
Conference on Basic Writing - Home Page
Teachable
Moment: Photographic Truth in the Digital Era
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The
Chronicle: View results (article re ethical considerations of online
research)
-
Penn
StateU's Media Lab Source Attribution Study
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REF DESK
Citation
examples from Sonoma State
RESEARCH:
http://www.slu.edu/departments/english/research/page6.html
http://www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/internet/research.htm
Good overall research info site
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/guides.htm#WebEvaluation
(includes some entries on plagiarism)
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Evaluation.html
Term
Paper Tips and Research Strategies, UC Davis
Research
Guide from University of New Brunswick -- includes links to search
engines, meta search engines, search engines to the "invisible web," and
links to selected evaluation websites
Guides to Finding
Information on the Web, University of Georgia, search engines, citing
sources, etc.
Searching
the Internet, Class Handouts -- from Berkeley
Best
Stuff on the Web -- Berkeley, good html slide show on searching (use
Explorer)
Internet Public Library
-- Web Searching
Searching, Scout Archives,
University of Wisconsin
Argus Clearinghouse (ended
Jan 2002)
Search engine
notes
http://www.dccc.edu/academics/faculty/tutorials/search/index.htm
-- Website, Search (buried treasure)
Internet literacy
http://www.yahooligans.com/tg/litintro.html
Machine Assisted Reference
Section (MARS, ALA)