no.1572-CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING INTERNET RESOURCES

From: Lynn Sipe <lsipe_at_calvin.usc.edu>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 08:54:43 -0700
To: COLLDV-L_at_usc.edu
[This posting, from an editor of PACS-P, brings attention to an article
likely to be of interest to many COLLDV-L subscribers.]

From: Pat Ensor <PLEnsor_at_UH.EDU>
Subject: Public-Access Computer Systems Review, vol. 8, no. 3


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            The Public-Access Computer Systems Review

Volume 8, Number 3 (1997)                          ISSN 1048-6542
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REFEREED ARTICLES

Alastair G. Smith, Testing the Surf: Criteria for Evaluating
Internet Information Resources

     Librarians and users need criteria for the evaluation of
     Internet information resources.  This article reviews
     criteria published in the print literature and on the
     Internet.  An extensive "toolbox" of criteria which can be
     used by librarians and others to evaluate Internet
     information resources is presented.  These criteria are in
     turn compared to criteria stated by selected evaluation and
     review sites.  It is noted that many of the criteria
     considered important by librarians are not used by some
     popular evaluative sites.

     o    HTML file

          World Wide Web:

          <URL:http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v8/n3/smit8n3.html>

     o    ASCII file

          World Wide Web:

          <URL:http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v8/n3/smith.8n3>


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University Libraries
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plensor_at_uh.edu and twilson_at_uh.edu


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