Testing the accuracy of information on the World Wide Web using the AltaVista search engine

Reference and User Services Quarterly

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 360-368

  Connell, Tschera Harkness ^a   Tipple, Jennifer E ^a  

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2. Christian Crumlish, The Internet Dictionary (San Francisco: Sybes, 1995), 217.
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5. Benson, The Complete Internet Companion for Librarians.
6. Paul D. Healey, "Untangling the Web: The World Wide Web as a Reference Tool," RQ 34 (Summer 1995): 443-44.
7. D. Scott Brandt, "Evaluating Information on the Internet," Computers in Libraries 16 (May 1996): 44-46.
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9. Brandt, "Evaluating Information on the Internet," 46.
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20. Ibid.
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22. Terence Crowley, "Half-Right Reference: Is It True?" RQ 25 (Fall 1995):59-68; Cheryl Elzy and others, "Evaluating Reference Service in a Large Academic Library," College & Research Libraries 52 (Sept. 1991): 454-65; Ralph Gers and Lillie J. Seward, "Improving Reference Performance: Results of a Statewide Study," Library Journal 110 (1 Nov. 1985): 32-35; Peter Hernon and Charles R. McClure. "Unobtrusive Reference Testing: The 55 Percent Rule," Library Journal 111 (Apr. 15, 1986): 37-41.
23. Terence Crowley, "Half-Right Reference: Is It True?" RQ 25 (Fall 1995):59-68; Cheryl Elzy and others, "Evaluating Reference Service in a Large Academic Library," College & Research Libraries 52 (Sept. 1991): 454-65; Ralph Gers and Lillie J. Seward, "Improving Reference Performance: Results of a Statewide Study," Library Journal 110 (1 Nov. 1985): 32-35; Peter Hernon and Charles R. McClure. "Unobtrusive Reference Testing: The 55 Percent Rule," Library Journal 111 (Apr. 15, 1986): 37-41.
24. Terence Crowley, "Half-Right Reference: Is It True?" RQ 25 (Fall 1995):59-68; Cheryl Elzy and others, "Evaluating Reference Service in a Large Academic Library," College & Research Libraries 52 (Sept. 1991): 454-65; Ralph Gers and Lillie J. Seward, "Improving Reference Performance: Results of a Statewide Study," Library Journal 110 (1 Nov. 1985): 32-35; Peter Hernon and Charles R. McClure. "Unobtrusive Reference Testing: The 55 Percent Rule," Library Journal 111 (Apr. 15, 1986): 37-41.
25. Gers and Seward, "Improving Reference Performance."
26. Ibid.
27. Terry L. Weech and Herbert Goldhor, "Obtrusive Versus Unobtrusive Evaluation of Reference Service in Five Illinois Public Libraries: A Pilot Study," Library Quarterly 52 (4): 305-24.
28. Linda Olson, "Reference Service Evaluation in Medium-Sized Academic Libraries: A Model," Journal of Academic Librarianship 9 (Jan. 1984): 322-29.
29. Ibid., 328.
30. William Katz, Introduction to Reference Work (New York: McGrawHill, 1997), 15-16.
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32. Susan Feldman, "Just the Answers, Please," Searcher 5 (May 1997): 44-55.
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34. John December and Neil Randall, The Web Unleashed, 2d ed. (Indianapolis: Sams.net, 1995), 1,300.
35. Ibid.