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duplication.
Hello:
Thank you to all who responded to my query about websites containing
inaccurate information.
Below is a list of sites containing inaccurate information, followed by
sites which are guides to evaluating Internet resources, and which also
contain links to sites with inaccurate information.
I want to thank in particular:
Lisa Fricker, Beth Smith, Bryan Carson, Kathy E. Shimpock, Pat Sullivan,
Richard Schiff, Jane Thompson, Melanie Long, Nancy E. Adams, Amy Boykin,
Nancy Gauss, Emily Werrell, Joni E. Kanzler, and Steven Dunlap.
My apologies if you took the time to offer a suggestion and I have
inadvertently overlooked your response.
Best wishes,
Rob Richards
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Robert C. Richards, Jr., M.A., M.S.L.I.S
Technical Services Librarian
University of Colorado Law Library
Fleming Law Building
Kittredge Loop South
Campus Box 402
Boulder, Colorado 80309-0402
Telephone: (303) 492-7535
Fax: (303) 492-2707
E-mail: rrichard@stripe.Colorado.EDU
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1. List of inaccurate sites:
The American Smokers' Alliance
http://www.smokers.org
"Dream Technologies"
http://www.d-b.net/dti/
"Facts About Growth Hormone"
http://www.cosmicdome.com/health/
Fueul, Juatta Lyon. "The true but little-known facts about women
with AIDS, with documentation."
http://147.129.1.10/library/lib2/AIDSFACTS.html
Catherine Maloney, et al. "Feline Reactions to Bearded Men"
http://www.improb.com/airchives/cat.html
"Mankato" home page:
www.lme.mankato.msus.edu/mankato/mankato.html
"Skeptic Tank"
http://www.linkline.com/personal/frice/flist068.htm
United States Code:
Jane Thompson notes that "Regarding the USC [United
States Code], there is no site on the Internet (GPO Access
[http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/cong013.html], House of Reps
[http://law.house.gov/uscsrch.htm], or Cornell
[http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/]) that has a version" more current
than January 16, 1996.
"White House" sites:
www.whitehouse.net
www.whitehouse.com (pornographic)
2. Guides to Evaluting Internet Resources, with links to inaccurate sites:
Jane Alexander and Marsha Tate, "EVALUATING WEB PAGES: LINKS TO EXAMPLES
OF VARIOUS CONCEPTS."
http://www.science.widener.edu/~withers/examples.htm
Elliot Chabot, "Ascertaining Information Quality"
http://www.law.ab.umd.edu/marshall/workshop/index.html
Diane Kovacs, "Evaluating Internet Information"
www.kovacs.com/evaluating.html
Tyburski, Genie. "Publishers Wanted, No Experience Necessary:
Information Quality on the Web," Law Library
Resource Exchange, 24 June 1997. Online. Internet. 3 July 1997.
Available WWW: http://www.llrx.com/columns/quality.htm
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