Evaluating and Citing Online Information Resources

There are many guidelines for citing online resources within the scholarly work that humanities students will produce for class. I have included links to those sites which I find particularly helpful:

• The Transcriptions Project at UC-Santa Barbara has put together an excellent source guide for citing online resources, with examples and activities for finding the information you need for a proper citation.

  This project also has a criteria and checklist for evaluating online resources. This list is useful if you require students in your courses to evaluate certain websites, particularly those produced as teaching resources and for scholarly research purposes. Check here for a printable version of their checklist in PDF format.

• I have also included a less structured list of guiding questions that are useful to ask when considering using an online source of information for research. You can find this list in the Materials and Useful Documents section of this site. Or click here to access it directly.