By Chiemezie P. Uzuegbu

In contemplating to rely on or print internet information for research, the researcher should ask himself or herself the following questions:

1. Where or what organisation is responsible for this site hosting this document?
2. How accurate is this information on this site likely to be?
3. Why is the site made available?
4. How comprehensive is the information?

Relatively, answers to these questions, may be presented as follows;

• Learned and reputable organizations operate in definite fields or disciplines and are managed by erudite team that .surety everything presented in their names.
• The information presented on reputable sites are correct, providing links like references, that refer clients to other web pages, where justification for previous information can be drawn.
• A reliable internet site for research is neither a blog post nor a chat page, but  provided for publishing of scholarly documents.
• An internet site with comprehensive information is a site that publishes documents accompanied with references that justify citations, numerical data and other sources of factual information. Such documents rarely have grammatical and spelling errors, and are often deep in coverage and timely to the subject concerned.