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Web Page Evaluation Checklist
1. Go to Google and perform the search: “stem cells” abortion 2. Use this Checklist to try to evaluate systematically some of the search results.
Title of page youare evaluating: Title of page you are evaluating:

1. Look at the URL:
Personal page or site? What type of domain is it?
~ or %, or users, members, or people com org/net edu gov/mil/usnon-US________ other: Publisher or Domain Name entity: ~ or %, or users, members, or people com org/net edu gov/mil/us non-US________ other: Publisher or Domain Name entity:

Appropriate for thecontent?
Published by entity that makes sense? Does it correspond to the name of the site?

2. Scan the perimeter of page, looking for answers to these questions:
Who wrote the page? Dated? Credentialson this subject?
(Truncate back the URL if no useful links.)

E-mail

Name:

E-mail

Name:

Date ________ Current enough? Evidence?

Date ________ Current enough? Evidence?

3. Lookfor these indicators of quality
Sources well documented? Complete? If 2nd-hand information, is it not altered or forged? Links to more resources? Do they work? Other viewpoints? Bias?

4. What doothers say?
Who links to it?
Hint: In Google search: link:all.or.part.of.url

Many or few? Opinions of it?

Many or few? Opinions of it?

Is the page rated well in a directory?
http://lii.orgor http://infomine.ucr.edu or http://about.com

Look up the author in Google

Does it all add up?
Why was the page put on the Web?
Inform, facts, data Persuade Sell Share/disclose Other:Explain Entice Inform, facts, data Explain Persuade Sell/entice Share/disclose Other:

Possibly ironic? Satire or parody?

BOTTOM LINE: Is the web page as good as (or better than) what you could findin journal articles or other published literature that is not on the free, general web?

 2002 Joe Barker, The Teaching Library, University of California, Berkeley “The Best Stuff On The Web”...