Evaluating Websites for Music Research
The five standard criteria typically used by researchers and and librarians for evaluating websites are:
- Authority
- Accuracy
- Objectivity
- Currency
- Coverage
Listed below are citations and links to several very good external webpages for guidance in this area:
Barker, Joe. "Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask." Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html
Beck, Susan. "Evaluation Criteria." The Good, The Bad & The Ugly: or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources. 1997. http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html
Engle, Michael. Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools. http://olinuris.library.cornell.edu/ref/research/webeval.html
Sonoma State University Library. Evaluating Web Resources.
http://libguides.sonoma.edu/webeval