Website Evaluation Betsy Hopkins, Life Sciences Librarian Brigham Young University
Quick Look Criteria Presence/authority of an author Presence/authority of sponsoring organization or publisher Timeliness Cited sources Type of venue
Content Analysis Criteria Intended audience Intended purpose Coverage Treatment and tone Confirmation from other sources
Evaluating Health Information on the Web National Library of Medicine: Medical Library Association Guidelines: University of Colorado Denver Health Sciences Library:
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Biology Resources: General Biology Browser ActionBioscience
Biology Resources, Contd Agricola Biological (Pest) Control (insects, diseases, weeds) Gray Herbarium Index of New World Plant Names ITIS: Integrated Taxonomic Information System Mammal Species of the World National Environmental Satellite, Data & Information Service National Marine Fisheries National Park Service Environmental Contaminants Encyclopedia PrimateLit - (Primate Research Center) US Fish and Wildlife Reference Service Database Utah Conservation Data Center (Plant and Animal Species)
About Plants and Animals Encyclopedia of Life International Field Guides IUCN Red List PLANTS Database Smithsonian North American Mammals
About the Environment EarthTrends Encyclopedia of Earth Envirofacts
Medicine Resources Starting places – Medline Plus – Healthfinder.gov – Top 100 Websites from Consumer and Patient Health Information Section of the Medical Library Association Health on the Net Foundation HON Code website seal
Free Databases BioMedCentral Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) Cancer Library from the National Cancer Institute
National Library of Medicine NLM Gateway NCBI All Databases Search Gene vs. Protein Pubmed
Pubmed/Medline Same core database – journals – Health, medicine, and pre-clinical sciences Pubmed – Search algorithm better for patrons – EBSCO version better for super searchers – Review articles more readable
Other resources on EBSCO AltHealth Watch – Covers complementary and alternative health – 180 titles, full text – Less scholarly, more readable HealthSource Consumer Edition – Full text – 80 magazines, pamphlets, 130 ref books – More readable than Medline
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