Research & Subject Guides: Evaluating Web Resources: Sites for More

Websites About Resource Evaluation

Critical Evaluation Form
This is a detailed form to help you write out the process of evaluating a website.
Critically Analyzing Information Sources
Discusses evaluating sources of all kinds, web and print.
Evaluate Web Pages Video Tutorial
Video and tutorial exercises on evaluating web resources
Evaluating Information Found on the Internet
Evaluation discussion with a more scholarly tone, from Johns Hopkins University
Evaluating Internet Health Information: A Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine
Video tutorial on health information on the internet
Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask
Longer discussion of how to evaluate and what to consider in thinking about web sites. This page is part of a larger research guide at UC Berkley.
VirtualChase Evaluating the Quality of Information on the Internet
This resource is geared especially towards law students but applies to any scholarly internet searching.
Website Evaluation Checklist
A short form to help guide you through evaluation

Search Google Scholar

Sweet Search reviewed sites

More Reviewed Search Engines

Librarians Internet Index
Scirus
Searches scientific information on the Web. Scierus searches many articles that you cannot get in full-text though, so you might consider using the Advanced Search to narrow the types of results you get.
Intute
Virtual Learning Resources Center
RefSeek
iSeek

Other Search Tools

Clusty
Clustering search engine

These search engines, metasearchers, and subject directories provide alternative search tools for finding information on the Internet when Google and Ask just aren't bringing what you want.

Dogpile
Metasearch engine, searches multiple other engines at once
Google Government Search
For searching U. S. Government sites. See also USA.gov
Ixquick
Metasearch engine, searches multiple other engines at once
Mamma
Metasearch engine, searches multiple other engines at once
Metacrawler
Metasearch engine, searches multiple other engines at once
USA.gov
The portal for searching or exploring the extensive networks of the U. S. Federal Government's web sites.
Vivisimo
Clustering search engine
WolframAlpha
Calculating website that finds data rather than web pages