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Environmental Science 010: Websites

Databases

Web Searching Caution

How do I determine if a website is reliable?

Consider...

  • Who is the author? sponsor? url (.gov, .edu, .com, etc.)?
  • Why was it written -- for what purpose, organization, or audience?
  • When was it written?
  • Does it include references or a works cited list?

 

Library Activity - Review the following sites:


Consider criteria
included on your "Evaluating Sources" handout:  author, accuracy, objectivity, currency, coverage. Would you use any of these websites to write a research paper about global warming?

Potential Wikipedia Issues

Recommended Websites on the Environment
https://libguides.evc.edu/c.php?g=625139&p=4358062
libguides.evc.edu
CC-MAIN-2024-22
27097
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<urn:uuid:5cb5c5ee-949c-4f31-a1e3-cc0aa4e70101>
2024-05-22T12:22:46Z
34.194.39.199
text/html
sha1:RWWHKIUZYO6VVCRZW4QQCVB4GYTQZARF
<urn:uuid:611d1485-d1ad-4694-a0b3-68db3ed3c186>
https://libguides.evc.edu/c.php?g=625139&p=4358062
response
<urn:uuid:b6f244ba-d30d-4c02-8559-f07c9c2ffe69>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2024-22
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for May 2024
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-27
software: Apache Nutch 1.19 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.5-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/