How do you decide if an online source is trustworthy?
- Authorship: Who wrote this and what are their credentials?
- Publisher: Who sponsors the document? Is this institution biased?
- Educational website = .edu
- Non-profit organizations and public interest groups = .org
- Government agencies = .gov or .fed
- Commercial sites = .com or .net
- Point of view: What is the author’s goal?
- Verifiability: Can you verify the information the author references? What kind of information do they cite?
- Currency: Is the information current? See copyright/update at foot of web page.