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Evaluating Internet Resources for Credibility & Bias |
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Evaluating Internet Resources for Credibility & Bias |
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Begin your initial research with a trusted publication, i.e.: an article from an online database. To learn more about the benefits of using articles accessed via a database, read Sirs vs. Google and Other Web Surfing.
Online Databases
Please refer to PHS LMC Online Database Log In Information Handout for user ID and passwords - Available at library circulation desk.
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Opposing Viewpoints features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites. |
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Student Resource Center Gold -
Offers more than 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers,
primary sources, creative
works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and
podcasts Hint: Select Advanced Search when searching for multiple keywords. |
Internet Resources
| Evaluating the quality of Information |
Critical Evaluation Survey: Evaluating Information Found on the Internet: http://www.library.jhu.edu/researchhelp/general/evaluating/ Evaluating Webpages; Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, Or, Why it's a Good Idea to Evaluate Websites - Evaluation Criteria: http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html
Information and It’s Counterfeits: Propaganda, Misinformation and
Disinformation:
http://www.library.jhu.edu/researchhelp/general/evaluating/counterfeit.html |
| Verifying Urban Legends |
Discovery Channel - Mythbusters: http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythbusters/mythbusters.html Urban Legends Reference Scopes.com: http://www.scopes.com Current Netlore A to Z Index: http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blxatoz.htm |
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Bias (tips for detecting) |
How the Media Persuade: Verbally and Visually: http://library.csumb.edu/instruction/icmodules/treat/persuade.html How to Detect Bias in News Media: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=121
Media Awareness Network: How to Detect
Bias in the News:
http://www.mediaawareness.ca/english/resources/educational/handouts/
Selection, Slanting, and Charged
Language:
www.csus.edu/englishta/TA%20Readings/BirkChargedLanguage.pdf |
| Controversial Issues |
Internet Public Library - Social Issues & Social Welfare Resources: www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/soc80.00.00/ Multnomah County Library - Social Issues: www.multcolib.org/homework/sochc.html
University of Washington Libraries
- Opposing Views:
www.lib.washington.edu/mcnews/opposingviews/
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Internet Search Tips
If you would like to search for something specific about capital punishment, try a combined keyword search by adding a comma followed by a space and your other search term. For instance; if I wanted to explore the controversy and debate over capital punishment, I would enter the following:
"capital punishment", controversy, debate
Hit Enter on your keyboard, or click on
Search, then scan the description of the "hits" (entries) and click on the links
that sound best.
Be sure to evaluate each Internet site for the following:
For help evaluating information found on the Internet, refer to the guides listed in Evaluating the Quality of Information listed above.
REMEMBER TO CITE EVERY RESOURCE YOU USE in gathering your information on
a
Works Cited (Bibliography) page. Use the
Works Cited Guide to
access MLA format.
Created by
Liza Zandonella,
Library Media Specialist.
