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[|LibGuides]

=**Website evaulation**=

[|Good, iffy, and bad sources]

**Criteria for website evaluation**

 * **Author** || * Who is providing the information?
 * What do you know about them and their credentials?
 * Are they an expert?
 * Can you find out more and contact them?
 * Search for author or publisher in search engine. Has the author written several publications on the topic? ||
 * **Publisher** || * Is there a sponsor or affiliation?
 * Who is linking to the page?
 * Do they take responsibility for the content? ||
 * **Bias** || * Is the language free of emotion?
 * Does the organization or author indicate there will be bias?
 * Is the purpose of the website to inform or to spread an agenda?
 * Are there ads? Are they trying to make money?
 * Why did they write the article?
 * Is the site a content farm? A content farm is a site whose content has been generated by teams of relatively low-paid freelancers who write large amounts of text in what critics say is an effort to gain a search algorithm's favor and raise the site's rankings rather than provide good information. ||
 * **Citations** || * Copy and paste a sentence into Google to see if the text can be found elsewhere
 * Are there links to related sites? Are they organized?
 * Are there citations or a bibliography provided? ||
 * **Accuracy** || * Is the data verifiable and accurate? ||
 * **Complete** || * Is the source comprehensive? ||
 * **Currency** || * When was the source last updated?
 * Does the source even have a date? ||
 * **Design** || * Is the overall web design easy to use?
 * Is it presented in a professional manner?
 * Does it seem current? ||
 * **Reproduced** || * Was it reproduced? If so, from where? Type a sentence in Google to verify.
 * If it was reproduced, was it done so with permission? Copyright/disclaimer included? ||
 * **Credible** || * Based on previous criteria, decide whether the source is credible overall. ||

Websites for evaluation


 * [|Bullying and Violence: What You Need to Know]
 * [|Suggestions for Parents When Dealing with Bullying]
 * [|Adolescent Pregnancy Rates]
 * [|Global Warming]