Evaluating Web Sites - Example 2
Stop apologising for animal
experiments -
http://www.spiked-online.com/articles/0000000CA7E4.htm
Source:
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Here we have a dot-com based in London
(although it does not use the uk domain name).
It is, in fact, an online journal.
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But it is free, produced by volunteers.
It has an "about" link with some information, and a
link, "What is spiked?", which solicits donations.
So it could qualify as a dot-org.
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The author, Helene Guldberg, cannot be
found in standard biographical sources (e.g.,
Biography Resource Center, accessible from
OCC
Libraries' articles page). However, a Google
search reveals that "She specialises in issues of human
psychology and child development" (http://www.thegreatdebate.org.uk/helene.html).
Nothing indicates expertise in the practice of animal
experimentation or the ethics (morality) of animal
rights.
Content:
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A review of articles in various
sections of the journal shows that its tone is generally
argumentative rather than objective, which is true of this particular article as
well. The only relevant link (as the bottom of the
article) is to other articles with the same point of
view in the same journal.
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Opposing viewpoints are given little
consideration.
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The article is dated
26 November 2004.
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Neither articles
databases nor the library catalog turns up anything else
on this subject by this author.
Next let's consider another web page on the
topic of animal rights.
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