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.
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Pat Ensor and Thomas C. Wilson
University Libraries
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Leslie Dillon, OCLC
Andrea Bean Hough, University of Houston
Ann Thornton, New York Public Library
Robert Spragg, University of Houston
Ralph Alberico, University of Texas, Austin
George H. Brett II
Priscilla Caplan, University of Chicago
Steve Cisler, Apple Computer, Inc.
Walt Crawford, Research Libraries Group
Lorcan Dempsey, University of Bath
Nancy Evans, Pennsylvania State University, Ogontz
Stephen P. Harter, Indiana University
Charles Hildreth, University of Oklahoma
Ronald Larsen, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information
David R. McDonald, Tufts University
R. Bruce Miller, University of California, San Diego
Ann Okerson, Yale University
Mike Ridley, University of Guelph
Peggy Seiden, Skidmore College
Peter Stone
John E. Ulmschneider, North Carolina State University
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