EVALUATING RESOURCES

• Evaluating Web Content (University of Albany – SUNY)
• Evaluating Information (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
• Evaluating Information Resources (Owens Library, Northwest Missouri State University)
• Evaluating Web Information (from Virginia Tech University Libraries)
• The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly or, Why It’s a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources by Susan E. Beck, New Mexico State University Library
• Online Information: Fact or Fiction?
• Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources & Thinking Critically about Discipline-Based World Wide Web Resources
  by Esther Grassian, University of California, Los Angeles
• Tools Which Evaluate Web Sites – Although these tools evaluate sites for you, you should still personally evaluate any site that you cite in your work to make sure that it does what you need it to do.

Truth or Urban Legend?

Is it true? Or is it a myth? An urban legend? An Internet hoax? Check these sites to find the answers.

• Antivirus Research from IBM — Here you can get the full text of papers mostly presented at the Virus Bulletin Conferences, including information on real computer viruses and hoaxes.
• Hoax du Jour from Korova Multimedia — See the Hoax du Jour FAQ to judge the authority of this site.
• HOAXBUSTERS: A public service of the CIAC [Computer Incident Advisory Capability] Team and the U.S. Department Energy — Well, if you can’t trust the U.S. Department of Energy, who can you trust?
• McAfee.com – Virus Information Library – Virus Hoaxes — And just who is McAfee? See their Company Overview.
• Rip-Off Report– “a worldwide consumer reporting Website & Publication, by consumers, for consumers, to file & document complaints about companies or individuals who ripoff consumers.”
• Truth or Fiction — Purpose is “to provide Internet users with a quick and easy way to check out the accuracy of forwarded emails.” For information on the authority of this site, see About TruthOrFiction.com.
• Urban Legends and Folklore — For info on the authority of this site, see their About – Our Story section.
• Urban Legends Reference Pages — What makes this site authoritative? Read their FAQ, look at the site, and judge for yourself.
• Virus Hoaxes from Symantec — See About Symantec for information on this company.
• Vmyths.com — “Learn about computer virus myths, hoaxes, urban legends, hysteria, and the implications if you believe in them.” Read About Rob Rosenberger to get lots of information on the webmaster’s qualifications.