There have been attempts to come up with criteria to evaluate material on the Internet. Librarians have been involved in this process. The following guidelines were obtained at a meeting of the Oklahoma Bibliographic Instruction Council Meeting in November of 1995. The purpose of the Internet site should be clear from the title or introductory screens. Some information at some sites is rarely updated.
Some sites are here today, and gone tomorrow.
Not all of these criteria can be used at each site. Sometimes the information to answer the questions above is not available. But these 4 criteria can be useful to evaluate Internet cites. The basic idea in citations is the ability to go back to the original source. On the Internet this is not always possible.