Web Credibility: A Literature Based Overview
Journal Title: International Journal of Library Science and Research (IJLSR) - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 4
Abstract
Web sites provide enormous information to the users, especially the academic web sites. The credibility of information provided by the academic web sites becomes more important. Numerous measures are available for measuring the website. But, the contents of web sites are considered as web credibility. The webometrics and web credibility are synonymously used by the research. This study identified the difference between webometrics and web credibility. Further, the study provides different types of web credibility and its taxonomy. Various evaluation methods of web credibility have also been suggested. The study provides various evaluation methods. Thus, a brief overview on web credibility has been presented in this paper.
Authors and Affiliations
R. Sujatha, P. Nageswara Rao
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