safitch@uwm.edu wrote:
I'm a graduate student doing a research paper on verifying online information: How do you know its creditable? Does anyone have any suggestions for places or sources to get information on this topic? give me your feedback.
Here's a useful recent textbook on the subject: Radford, M. L., Barnes, S. B., & Barr, L. R. (2002). Web research: Selecting, evaluating, & citing. Boston: Allyn & Bacon [ISBN 0205332498]. There are also plenty of resources online about criteria for evaluating Web sites, many of them from libraries (institutions with a long tradition of evaluating all sorts of information). http://www.ala.org/acrl/undwebev.html http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/reference/webcriteria.html http://library.rwu.edu/evaluat.html http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v8/n3/smit8n3.html Regards, Janet Sternberg, Ph.D. Visiting Assistant Professor, New/Digital Media Department of Communication and Media Studies Fordham University 441 E. Fordham Rd. Bronx, NY 10458-9993 718-817-4855 voice 718-817-4868 fax jsternberg@fordham.edu netberg@compuserve.com