1. What Is a Scholarly Website?

2. Is the Website Trustworthy? Why is this site here? Why do I have free access to this site? Why do the creators want me to see this site?

3. Is It Trustworthy? Who sponsors this site? Is the site attempting to sell.... a product? promote an idea? advocate a political agenda?

4. Who’s Behind the Website? Who pays for the site? Who maintains the site? Who is the content provider?

5. Who Is Behind the Website? Check to see if site provides an identifying link: “About Us” “Who We Are” “Mission Statement” Example: http://www.aclu.org http://www.aclu.org

6. Evaluating Web Content

7. Who is the Content Provider? Check credentials of author (content provider): Listedin library databases? Academic Search Elite Discussed on the Internet? Google the author’s name

8. Look to the Evidence How can I trust what the author tells me?.

9. Verification Prove the truth of a claim Confirm the accuracy of a statistic or fact

10. Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishm ent#_note-0

11. Unsupported statements In 2005, according to Ebreastaug.com, Americans spent $7.7 billion on cosmetic surgery.

12. Supported Statements Sarwer, D. “Physical Appearance & Cosmetic Medical Treatments: Socio-Cultural Influences.”Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology 2 (2006): 29-39. (33)

13. Supported Statements In 2005, Americans spent approximately $8 billion on surgeons’ fees for cosmetic medical treatments (ASAPS, 2006).

14. Supported Statements Works Cited American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. Cosmetic Surgery National Data Bank—2005 statistics. New York, NY: American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery: 2006.

15. Summary Why was this site launched? Who is behind this site? Is the content cited by reliable evidence?

16. http://www.aecf.org/ http://www.csicop.org/ http://www.psychicscientificinvestigators.com/ http://www.psychics.co.uk/psychicpets/

17. Identify the Sponsor Truncate the URL to the domain name: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~bittnera/

18. Types of Web Sites Personal (.com,.edu,.net) Commercial (.com,.org) Advocacy (.org,.com) Non-profits (.org,.edu) Scholarly/educational (.edu, org) Popular press (.com,.org) Proprietary (.com,.edu,.org,.net) Governmental (.gov,.mil)