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The information available on the internet ranges in its accuracy, reliability, and value. Unlike print media (books, journals, magazines), no one has to approve the content of a web site before it is made available. It is your job to evaluate web sites and to determine whether they offer reliable information.

To learn how to evaluate internet material critically, read the following articles:

bulletEvaluating Internet Research Sources (by Robert Harris, VirtualSalt)
bullet The Good, The Bad & The Ugly: or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources 
(by Susan E. Beck, New Mexico State University)

For a comprehensive list of articles on this topic, see Evaluation of Sources. 
(from the Information Quality WWW Virtual Library).

 

 

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