How to Evaluate a website when you are looking for primary sources.
Start with the URL.
What is a URL?
A Uniform Resource Locator: the address of a web page, ftp site, audio stream or other Internet resource.
For example: http://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html
This URL/address can tell you who created the website.
loc.gov is the Library of Congress, a government website.
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Start with the URL.
What is a URL?
A Uniform Resource Locator: the address of a web page, ftp site, audio stream or other Internet resource.
For example: http://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html
This URL/address can tell you who created the website.
loc.gov is the Library of Congress, a government website.
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