Evaluating Web Pages   -   Do they pass the CRAAP Test?

Everyone "should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside." -  Ernest Hemingway

1. USA Today
2. About USA Today Online - the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
3. Roget's Thesaurus
4. CNN
5. Hatecrime Stats
6. Weapons of Mass Destruction

Relevance/Coverage:

1. Roget's Thesaurus
2. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 Edition
3. A Concise Grammar of Feorran
4. A research report about Feline Reactions to Bearded Men
5. Life on Mars
6. Psychosocial Parameters of Internet Addiction
7. An article in the British Medical Journal about the antioxidant activities of martinis 

Authority & Accuracy

1. Mankato, Minnesota Home Page
2. Facts About Women with Aids, with documentation
3. Virus Myth: Is HIV really the cause of AIDS?
4. SARS more deadly for English speakers
5. World Trade Organization (or WTO?)
6. Dow Chemical - or Dow Chemical?
7. OncoLink
8. Tobacco Control Archives
9. California crop challenge
10. Harry Potter casts a spell on accident prone children, from the BMJ
11. A practical guide to informed consent to treatment
12. Dihydrogen Monoxide
13. Global Warming Information Page
14. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
15. Institute for Historical Review
16. Domestic Violence Stats
17. Pediatrics
18. George W. Bush / George W. Bush / Bush 2004.com
19. The White House / The White House
20. Is this Exam Hazardous to Your Grandmother's Health?

Purpose/Objectivity

1. No Smoke Home Page vs The Smoking Section
2. MartinLuthurKing.org
3. Quackwatch
4. A longitudinal study in an Australian research institute
5. The National Right to Life Committee
6. NARAL (National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League)
7. Consumer Reports Online
8. FurShame
9. BeefNutrition.org
10. A numerical controversy
11. Bunny Survival Test
12. Peep Research
13. Inequality.org

1. Ladies Against Women
2. A news site: Clinton signs bill into law
3. World Bank
4. Temporal change in body measures: trend analysis
5. Fredericton, Canada
6. New Hartford, Minnesota
7. A political campaign page 
8. California Crop Report
9. Drunks Against Madd Mothers
10. Mandota University
11. Hatchoo.com
12. Another article in the British Medical Journal
13. 404 Not Found
14. Found in a Google search for WMD
15. From the Dwayne Medical Center web site, a page on Mr. Lee

Peggy L. Roske
Public Services Libraran
ClemensLibrary
College of St. Benedict/St.John'sUniversity
37 College Ave. South
St.Joseph, MN 56374
(320) 363-5195
FAX: 363-5197

No longer available? A report from a biologist at the Eastern Connecticut State University -  http://biology.ecsu.ctstateu.edu/People/ConnRev.html