T. Matthew Ciolek reviews programming, procedural, structuring, bibliographical, evaluative and finally, organisational approaches to the quality of online information.
Short page covering some basic points: Who is responsible? Is the URL appropriate? Who do they link to? Who links to them? Use common sense.
[Book review.] Web of Deception offers an exposé of the types of chicanery, fraud and misinformation that's all over the Internet and suggests what to do if you get stung by it.
A few search techniques, using engines like Google, that you can use to check the authority of a website.
Nine tutorials provide guidance and practical exercises on information competence.
Scholarly paper argues that higher education students are naïve about the problem of misinformation, believe they can identify it, and do not make extra effort to check the sources of their information. Discusses sources and causes of misinformation and how it can be combatted.
Learn how to evaluate information sources by doing the following exercise.
Checklist of content and technical aspects to consider.
Tutorial to help learn how to find and critically evaluate information resources. Sponsored by Western Michigan University Libraries.
Principles applicable to physical information sources as well as web-based ones.
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