Rio Salado College's Checklist for Evaluating Research Sources
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For students as well as faculty, this criteria sheet offers a fast and easy way to check our sources for content, currency, organization, purpose, and authenticity.

Rio Salado College's Rubric for Evaluating Purpose and Bias
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Using a scale of 1 -4, students and faculty can quickly evaluate Internet sources for reliability and validly.

Evaluation Criteria
http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly: or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources. A well-designed site offering students guidance and rationale for evaluating online source materials.

Evaluating Web Pages for Relevance
http://www.slu.edu/departments/english/research/page01.html
An online tutorial including information about evaluating web sources for relevance, authority and accuracy, developed by Craig Branham, of St. Louis University. These clear, easily accessed pages encourage critical thinking when searching the Internet for research resources.

Evaluating Web Pages
http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/evaluating_web.htm
This site, from Duke University, teaches the value of considering the authority, purpose, date, objectivity or bias, and support of websites when doing research on-line. Illustrations of questionable sites are shown and their problems are pointed out. A good example is the discussion about the blurring of advertising and objective information.

Teaching Undergrads WEB Evaluation: A Guide for Library Instruction
http://www.ala.org/acrl/undwebev.html
A table showing what to look for when evaluating a web document, developed by Jim Kapoun of Southwest State University in Louisiana. A clear, thorough, and easily used resource for web site evaluation.

Evaluation Criteria
http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html
This useful criteria sheet includes the following areas: authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency, and coverage. Students and instructors should find this to be a useful site.

Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools
http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/webeval.html
This comprehensive site includes the following sections: context, evaluation criteria, online selection examples, and a webliography. Students should find the eight-point evaluation checklist from the UC Berkeley Library quite useful.