Assessing the reliability of information will depend on the type of information being considered.

• If you are evaluating the results of a test or survey, you will need to evaluate the consistency of the results.
  
• If evaluating a web site, is it part of an organisation’s web site? You can tell alot about a web site by looking at its web address (often called URL - Uniform Resource Locator).
  
  The basic format of a typical URL is:
  
  

  service_name://host.domain_name/directory/filename    For example: http://www.newcastle.edu.au/library/subject/index.html

• Elements of an electronic address