DSC Library: Folklore: Internet Sites

Evaluating Internet Sources

Currency

Relevance

Does the information relate to your topic or answer your question and who is the intended audience?

Authority

What are the author's qualifications to write on the topic? Does the URL reveal anything about the author or source? For example: .edu (educational), .gov (government)?

Accuracy

Is the information supported by evidence and has the information been reviewed or refereed?

Purpose

What is the purpose of the information? to inform? teach? sell? entertain? persuade?

Finding Reliable Information
by AJ Delgado Last Updated Aug 16, 2023 8063 views this year

Aesop's Fables On-line
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.
The Cinderella Project
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.
Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts
Academic site with full texts of many little-known tales; mostly oriental and Nordic folk tales, indexed alphabetically.
Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales and Stories
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.
Multilingual Electronic Text Folk Collection
Not-for-profit organization, electronic full-text site for Japanese folk tales, browsable simultaneously in French, English and Japanese on standard browsers.