General Resources

Internet Search Tools from ASU Libraries
http://www.asu.edu/lib/resources/internet.htm
Includes a listing of many search engines and directories as well as links to guides for searching the web.

Evaluating Web Sites for Educational Uses: Bibliography and Checklist
http://www.unc.edu/cit/guides/irg-49.html
From the Center for Instructional Technology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.  Librarians and other information specialists share their expertise in evaluating Web information resources in the articles listed here.  Also includes a Evaluation Checklist.

Research and Documentation Online
http://bedfordstmartins.com/hacker/resdoc/
From Bedford St. Martin’s, this online text by Diana Hacker with research sources by Barbara Fisher is divided into four main categories: Humanities, Social Sciences, History, and Sciences.  Within each category, visitors to the site can find sources and learn how to document them, using the appropriate style guidelines (includes MLA, APA, Chicago, and CBE).  This site also provides brief overviews about researching in the different disciplines.

Evaluating Internet Research Sources
http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm
From Robert Harris, teacher and author of The Plaigiarism Handbook and A Guidebook to the Web. This article provides the CARS Checklist for Research Source Evaluation and the CAFE advice for living in the world of information.

Online Tutorials

TILT - Texas Information Literacy Tutorial
http://tilt.lib.utsystem.edu/
From the Univeristy of Texas System Digital Library.  Log in as GUEST and choose either Full Tilt (highly interactive) or Tilt Lite (also interactive, but not as many plug-ins) for a thorough tutorial about effectively selecting, searching, and evaluating online research.  Also includes a list of useful links.

WebWIZARD: Your Guide to Becoming an Effective Web Searcher
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/infosrv/lue/webwizard/
From Bowling Green University, this site provides a series of modules that work through different aspects of searching and citing information from the web.  See Module 4: Evaluating Web Sites.

Evaluating Web Pages: Experience WHY it's important
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html
From the UC Berkeley Library.  This site allows you to work through the evaluation of six collections of related web pages.  Think all of them present the same information in the same way?  Think again!  This link also provides rationale for evaluating web pages as well as the tools and tricks to learn as much as you can about the author, publisher (owner or host), timeliness, quality, and reliability of a web page.

Net Tutor
http://gateway.lib.ohio-state.edu/tutor/
From Ohio State University, this site provides several modules for tools for getting started on the web, reearch skills and techniques, and other information about utilizing online sources.

Keith Stanger’s Home Port
http://www.keithstanger.com/
A specific link on this page is great for demonstrating to students how information can be manipulated in sometimes unethical ways.  Go to “How to Evaluate Internet Sites with Examples” for his collection of such sites that look authentic, but really aren’t.  See also his collection of links for Internet Search Tools and Search Tutorials and Tips.  Stanger is from the Bruce T. Halle Library at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

Online Readings

Teaching Kids to be Web Literate, by Alan November, in tech Learning
http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/TL/200103/webliterate.html
This article highlights the importance of teaching kids (and everyone) to evaluate what they find on the web.  Also includes some handy tips.

Rating Sites

Ratings, Reviews and Tests of Search Engines
http://searchenginewatch.com/reports/
This section of Search Engine Watch provides helpful ratings and charts comparing search engine performance and popularity.  Click on "Search Engine Reviews Chart" and "Search Engine Size Test."

Hate Directory
http://www.bcpl.net/~rfrankli/hatedir.htm
From the site: "The Hate Directory is maintained and presented as an aid in identifying and tracking the proliferation of hate oriented use of the Internet and other new electronic media. The Directory is a historical document as well as a current reference and includes current sites as well as those no longer in operation."  The April 2001 edition is available in PDF format, but the June 1999 version is in HTML.  The site also includes links for combatting hate on the Internet.