[Air-l] verifying onlline information

[Janet Sternberg]

safitch at uwm.edu wrote:
>   I'm a graduate student doing a research paper on verifying online
> information: How do you know its creditable?  Does anyone have any suggestions
> for places or sources to get information on this topic? give me your feedback.

Here's a useful recent textbook on the subject:
Radford, M. L., Barnes, S. B., & Barr, L. R. (2002). Web research:
Selecting, evaluating, & citing. Boston: Allyn & Bacon [ISBN 0205332498].

There are also plenty of resources online about criteria for evaluating
Web sites, many of them from libraries (institutions with a long
tradition of evaluating all sorts of information).

http://www.ala.org/acrl/undwebev.html

http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html 

http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/reference/webcriteria.html

http://library.rwu.edu/evaluat.html

http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v8/n3/smit8n3.html

Regards,

Janet Sternberg, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor, New/Digital Media
Department of Communication and Media Studies
Fordham University
441 E. Fordham Rd.
Bronx, NY 10458-9993
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