• Currency
• Relevance/Coverage
• Authority
• Accuracy
• Purpose/Objectivity

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Ask yourself these questions to evaluate the relevance and coverage of a Web source

• What is the depth of the information?
  
  
• Who is the intended audience?
  
  A website written for elementary school students is probably not useful for a college paper.
  
  
• Is better information available in another source?
  
  You can't get everything on the Web. Some information, for example literary criticism, is covered more thoroughly in print or a database.
  

 

Example

Example of a website with questionable depth of information:

Ocean Planet

Time For Kids