A.C. Buehler Library: CS 111 Intro to Software Applications & Digital Technologies: Using the Internet

Evaluating Web Sites

Pay attention to the kind of information you are looking at, and think critically about what you see. Is the website you are looking at new or old? A blog or major news outlet? A commercial site? You will have different uses for different kinds of information.

Guides to evaluating web content:

Dissing the King
A cautionary tale detailing how websites are not always what they seem.
Web Evaluation Criteria
Help identify what you should look for in a trustworthy web site.

Internet resources

Internet resources that contain scholarly and trade journals, as well as other useful and authorative data

IEEE Digital library (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/home.jsp)

CSC Open Access Journals (http://www.cscjournals.org/)

Pew Internet Foundation (http://www.pewinternet.org/)

Directory of Open Access Journals (http://www.doaj.org/)

Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com/)

Interlibrary article ordering form link

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Use this form to request articles not available through the A.C. Buehler library's databases.