Project #3: Analyzing Web Sites on Antebellum and Civil War Women
This page will provide you with:
This page will be supplemented by a librarian visit to class on October 20th.
Consider the following criteria when determining if a website is a scholarly source.
You can use this Website Evaluation Checklist from the University of Maryland Libraries to guide you as you search.
Checking the website's domain can be a good way to tell if the website is a legitimate source. Check the URL. Does the website's domain end in:
If it does, it more likely to be a legitimate source.
Did you know that you can filter your Google search results to include only websites from one of the domains above? Go to Google's Advance Search Option (https://www.google.com/advanced_search) and enter one of the above domains in the filter that states "site or domain."
Evaluating Scholarly Journals infographic from FrontMatter by Allen Press / CC BY ND NC 3.0