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. Does the site supply the source of the information. Some information at some sites is rarely updated.
Some site are here today, and gone tomorrow.
Not all os these criteria can be used at each site. Sometimes the information to answer the questionabove is not available. But these 4 criteria can be useful to evaluate internet sites. The basic idea in citations is the ability to go back to the original source. On the internet this is not always possible.