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Links to Guides for Evaluating and Citing Internet Sources

Step #1 Explore Net.Tutor

• Net.Tutor at Ohio State University. This is the best place to being learning how to effectively use information on the Internet.  In NetTutor, there are two particularly helpful resources:

  • Evaluation of Web Sites This is an excellent place to learn how to evaluate material on the web.  Explore this information and be sure to take the tutorial. It is definitely time well spent.

  •  Smart Net Research Strategies  This site also contains helpful guidelines for learning how to conduct useful searches on the web.

Step #2  Examine Several of the Following Guides

• Buhl Library Guide to Evaluating Web Resources This is the official Grove City College Library's guide to evaluating web resources.

• Evaluating Internet Resources is produced by Billie Peterson at Baylor University.

• Evaluating Web Information is from the library at Virginia Tech University.

• The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web sources  is from Susan E. Beck, New Mexico State University Library.

• The World-Wide Web Virtual Library  This is a meta-guide to various web resources on the "Evaluation of Information Sources".

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