Social Sciences: Find Web Resources

Often you are allowed to use the internet for some of the sources in your paper.  There's a lot of information out there, so you need to be careful that you are citing valid information. 

Websites should be evaluated based on the criteria below:

• Authority - who made the page and is this person credible?
• Purpose/Intended Audience - why did they make the page and who should read it?
• Currency - is the information up to date?
• Objectivity - is the author unbiased and fair?
• Support - is the information provided cited and factual?

For more information, see Duke University Library's Evaluating Web Pages:(http://library.duke.edu/services/instruction/libraryguide/evalwebpages.html).

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