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Your Reference Resources Search
How to evaluate your search
Questions to ask yourself when evaluating your search process and search strategy
How to evaluate information
Questions to ask yourself once you’ve located books, periodicals, or Web sites
You try it — practice evaluating print sources and Web sites
Hoax? Scholarly research? Personal opinion? You decide!
— Esther Grassian, University of California Los Angeles College Library
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, or Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources
— Susan E. Beck, New Mexico State University Library
Further reading
Evaluating Web Sites
— Colorado State University Libraries
Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask
— University of California Berkeley Library
Evaluation of Information Resources
— World Wide Web Virtual Library
