Of all the resources you encounter during the information search, Web sites are usually the most challenging to evaluate. Anyone can make a professional-looking Web site on any topic they want.

On the other hand, authors of books and articles are known. Their work is critically reviewed, edited and fact-checked before it is published.

This is usually not the case for Web sites.

Just because Web sites are often more accessible than books (meaning you can view them at any time and from anywhere) does not make them more "authoritative" — accurate, reliable, or truthful — than books and articles!

The results your Google, Teoma or other search retrieves could be written by a 7th-grader on her science project, or could be a marketing scam, parodies and jokes, or much worse.

The links above are examples of not completely credible Web sites (by the way, dihydrogen monoxide is H20, or water!). These ones are easy to detect, but what about others?

What are the criteria for evaluating Web sites?

You will use the Web site you entered earlier into LILO to learn about evaluating a site. (If you haven't filled this out yet, use the hyperlink below to return to the page and enter the URL.)

Your Web site(s):