Use Websites for:
- getting up-to-the-minute information about current events, topics, and trends
- locating government publications (reports, statistics, legislation)
- finding current, contextual information such as newspaper articles, interviews, reports, and papers
Advantages:
Disadvantages:
- often inaccurate, biased, and incomplete
- may also be outdated
- harder to control searches to return relevant results
The ever-changing nature of online information means that any information you get from them MUST be evaluated carefully. Check out the criteria below for helpful ways to assess information on the internet.
