Free websites are often very good sources of information, but you should always be careful to check a page's validity by asking question such as:

• Who wrote it? Is the author knowledgable about the topic?
• Who sponsored it? That is, who paid to publish it online?
• How old is it?
• Is the information balanced (presents both sides of an issue) or biased (gives only one point of view)?

Noodletools offers lessons and tutorials on evaluating sites while you fill out your citations.

Use the flowchart and forms below to evaluate websites. Pop-out (hover over upper right corner of the document) and download the form(s) to fill it out on the computer.