Dear Joyce, Here some usefull references on Evaluation of Websites and Online Resources in general: Bauer, Christian; Scharl, Arno (2000): Quantitativ evaluation of Web site content and structure. Internet Research: Electronic Networking Applications and Policy., 10/1, 31-43. Beck, Susan (1997): Evaluation Criteria. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly: or, Why It´s a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources. <http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html> (27.2.02). Bowles, Gerard (1998): Evaluating WWW Information Sources. <http://members.aol.com/GRBowles/papers/EvalWeb.html> (27.2.02). Harris, Robert (1997): Evaluating Internet Research Sources. <http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm> (27.2.02). Hillmann, Diana (2001): Using Dublin Core. <http://dublincore.org/documents/usageguide/> (27.2.02). Misic, Mark M.; Johnson, Kelsey L. (1999): Benchmarking: a tool for Web site evaluation and improvement. Internet Research: Electronic Networking Applications and Policy., 9/5, 383-392. Rössler, Patrick; Wirth, Werner (1999): "Trau, schau, wem!" Glaubwürdigkeit im Internet - eine Einführung. In Patrick Rössler; Werner Wirth (Ed.), Glaubwürdigkeit im Internet: Fragestellungen, Modelle, empirische Befunde. (pp. 7-12). München: R. Fischer. greetings philipp -- Philipp Budka email: ph.budka@philbu.net GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net