Evaluating Information

Benton Library Media Center

Internet vs. Databases

Monday, September 7, 2009

EVALUATING INFORMATION

“Wrong”Information

“Right”Information

Monday, September 7, 2009

EVALUATING THE INTERNET

Monday, September 7, 2009

Is the website backed by experts?

Is the website commerical or non-commercial?

Can you determine the authors of the website?

Image: “dot com” by Thomas Hawk via Flickr under a CC-license.

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Is the information backed by sources?

Is the information verifiable elsewhere?

Is the information relevant to your topic?

Images: “IT everywhere #31” by Paul the Wine Guy via Flickr under a CC-license.“Smack in the middle” by ogimogi via Flickr under a CC-license.

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Is the information up-to-date?

Can you tell when the information was published?

Does the website present new information?

Images: “#1 New MacBook” by Mikael Miettinen via Flickr under a CC-license.“2009-07-09 What Day Is It?” by RG of CS-taking a bit of a break via Flickr under a CC-license.

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Is the information presented objectively (when needed)?

Is the information comprehensive?

Is there a clear bias for a single viewpoint?

Images: “Chain” by waffler via Flickr under a CC-license.“Load or unload” by Pulpolux !!! via Flickr under a CC-license.

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Are Google and Wikipedia okay?

Images: “New Google Favicon High Resolution” by Tiger Pixel via Flickr under a CC-license.“Size of English Wikipedia” by Nikola Smolenski via Wikipedia under a GNU-license.

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WHAT IS A DATABASE?search engine for printed publications

scholarly journals popular magazines

newspapers other content

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DATABASES vs THE INTERNET

updated daily

academic content varied content

updated irregularly

little or no reviewingof websites

PEER REVIEW

peer reviewing of articles

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Images: “049”, “Fresh from the Still”, “question mark ?”, “What ?” , “Question mark” via Flickr, under a CC-license.

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