Evaluating Online Resources
How do you know if a website is appropriate for your project? It has to pass the C.R.A.A.P. test!
Currency: How up-to-date is the information?
Relevance: How does the information relate to your topic?
Authority: By whom was this content created? What credentials and/or demonstrated expertise does the author possess?
Accuracy: Is the information correct? Are there spelling or grammatical errors?
Purpose: Why was this content created? Does this information exist to educate you or to sell you something?
Adapted from "Evaluating Information - Applying the CRAAP Test" by the librarians at the Meriam Library at California State University, Chico.
Online Video
These resources can be accessed from off-campus computers using your LIU username and password.
- Kanopy This link opens in a new windowKanopy provides access to online video on a variety of topics including film, arts, business, K-12 education, gender studies, global studies & language, healthcare, media and communication, psychology, sciences, social sciences and more.
Organizations
- American Art Therapy AssociationThe American Art Therapy Association is an organization of professionals dedicated to the belief that making art is healing and life enhancing. Its mission is to serve its members and the general public by providing standards of professional competence, and developing and promoting knowledge in, and of, the field of art therapy.
- Arts For HealingArts for Healing serves the special needs population of children and adults living with communication disorders through integrated music therapy and art therapy. Our mission is to break through barriers that isolate them, creating a channel for self-expression through the arts.
- Arts and Healing NetworkThe Arts & Healing Network was created in 1997 as an online resource for anyone interested in the healing potential of art.
- International Expressive Arts Therapy AssociationThe International Expressive Arts Therapy Association supports artists, educators, consultants and therapists using multi-modal expressive arts processes for personal and community transformation.
- National Institute of Art and DisabilitiesThe National Institute of Art & Disabilities is an innovative visual arts center assisting adults with developmental and other physical disabilities.
- New York Art Therapy AssociationThe NYATA, Inc. functions to unify art therapists in New York State, conducting presentations and workshops.