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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.
Monday, September 7, 2009
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.
Monday, September 7, 2009
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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