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Evaluating Internet Resources
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Evaluating Internet Resources
by Frank Davis, Information and Education Services, and Rick Brewer, Access Services,
Medical Center Library, University of Kentucky | |
| Web Resources | Descriptions |
| Tips on Evaluating Web Resources | This site is from the Greater Midwest Region, National Network/Libraries of Medicine. |
| User's Guide to Finding and Evaluating Health Information on the Web | The Medical Library Association maintains this site that gives general guidelines, plus links to recommended Internet health sites. |
| Evaluating Health Information | This MedlinePlus compilation page has quality-filtered sites. |
| 10 Things to Know about Evaluating Medical Resources on the Web | This site from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine contains basic questions that are used to determine the validity of a medical web site. |
| Understanding and Decoding URLs | This is a concise overview from the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University. |
| Common Error Messages | This page lists Internet numerical error codes and explanations. It is maintained by the Taubman Center for Public Policy at Brown University. |
| Users' Guides to Evidence-Based Practice | This site has compiled the complete set of Users' Guides to reading the medical literature that were originally published as a series in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The site is maintained by the Canadian Centres for Health Evidence. |
| Publications | |
| Code of conduct for medical and health Web sites from the Health On the Net Foundation. | |
| Byrnes JA, et al. Information-seeking behavior changes in community-based teaching practices. J Med Libr Assoc. 2004 Jul; 92(3): 334-340. [PDF] | |
| Eysenbach G, et al. Health related virtual communities and electronic support groups: systematic review of the effects of online peer to peer interactions. BMJ. 2004 May 15; 328(7449): 1166. [PDF] | |
| Coiera E. Information economics and the Internet. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2000 May; 7(3): 215-221. | |
| Winker MA, et al. Guidelines for medical and health information sites on the Internet: principles governing AMA web sites. JAMA. 2000 Mar 22; 283(12): 1600-1606. [PDF] | |
| Kim P, et al. Published criteria for evaluating health related web sites: review. BMJ. 1999 Mar 6; 318(7184): 647-649. | |
| Wyatt JC. Commentary: Measuring quality and impact of the World Wide Web. BMJ. 1997 June 28; 314(7098): 1879-1881. | |
