The RADAR Framework can help you remember what kinds of questions you should be asking about an information source as you evaluate it for quality and usefulness in your research.
Relevance
How is the information you have found relevant to your assignment?
Does the information answer our research question?
Authority
Who is the author/ publisher/ source?
What are the author's credentials?
Is the author affiliated to an academic institution or reputable organization?
Date
When was the information published?
Has the information be revised or updated?
Is the publication date important to you?
Does your research requite timely sources?
Accuracy
Where does the information come from?
Is the information supported by evidence or peer reviews?
Is the information presented in a professional or academic manner? Free of spelling or grammatical errors?
Does it have citations and references?
Rationale
Why did the author publish the information?
What is the purpose of the information? to inform? teach? sell? entertain? persuade?
Personal web site containing online collection of Aesop's Fables includes more than 655 fables, in table format, with morals to the stories listed. Included are Real Audio narrations, Classic Images, Random Images, Random Fables and recently added are 127 Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen with 209 Grimm's Fairy Tales.
Academic site from the University of Southern Mississippi including text and image archives containing a dozen English versions of the fairy tale. Represents some of the more common varieties of Cinderalla from the English-speaking world in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. Materials to construct this archive were drawn from the de Grummond Children's Literature Research Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Academic site done by faculty at the Israel Institute of Technology with complete chronological list of 168 of Hans Christian Andersen's stories with full text.
Not-for-profit organization, electronic full-text site for Japanese folk tales, browsable simultaneously in French, English and Japanese on standard browsers.