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 sites . In your study and research in many topics, you are not limited to just the materials that are at the SOSU library. If you find a citation to a book or periodical article that the SOSU Library does not have, then you can fill out a slip of paper at the circulation desk, and the Library will send the request to other libraries that have the item.