CRAAP TEST WORKSHEET
Use the following worksheet to help you evaluate your sources. Score each of the main categories 1 to 10 (1 = Worst; 10 = Best). Check your scores with the key at the bottom.
Currency: the timeliness of the information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _____
Relevance: the importance of the information for your needs . . . . . . . . . . . _____
Authority: the source of the information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _____
Accuracy: the reliability, truthfulness, and correctness of the content, and . . . . _____
Purpose: the reason the information exists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . _____
45-50 Excellent; 40-44 Good; 35-39 Average; 30-34 Borderline Acceptable; Below 30 Unacceptable
Note: all credit for the CRAAP test goes to the librarians who developed it at Meriam Library at CSU Chico.
Frankenstein: The Afterlife of Shelley's Circle (Biblion, New York Public Library)
Schuessler, Jennifer. "'Frankenstein' Comes Alive in the App Store." June 7, 2012. The New York Times.
Frankenstein: Making a Modern Monster(Biblion, New York Public Library)
The Frankenstein Project(Bruce Matsunaga, Department of English, Arizona State University)
Frankenstein's Laboratory (The Bakken Museum, Minneapolis, MN)
The Shelley-Godwin Archive (New York Public Library and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities)
Monstrous Vintage Covers of Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’
Pforzheimer Collection, New York Public Library
Mary Shelley's papers are part of the Pforzheimer Collection, New York Public Library
The Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Chronology
Romantic Circles A refereed scholarly Website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture
The Shelley-Godwin Archive will provide the digitized manuscripts of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, William Godwin, and Mary Wollstonecraft, bringing together online for the first time ever the widely dispersed handwritten legacy of this uniquely gifted family of writers.
Since that time, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus has become one of the Western world’s most enduring myths. The story provides a framework for discussions of medical advances, which challenge our traditional understanding of what it means to be human.
Global Shakespeares - Video and Performance Archive (open source)
Shakespeare Quartos Archive - A digital collection of pre-1642 editions of William Shakespeare's plays.
Henslowe-Alleyn Digitization Project - Experts from King’s College London and the University of Reading are currently making the largest collection of material on professional theatre and dramatic performance in the age of Shakespeare, available online.
Shakespeare Documented is the largest and most authoritative collection of primary-source materials documenting the life of Shakespeare, bringing together all known manuscript and print references to Shakespeare, his works, and additional references to his family, in his lifetime and shortly thereafter.
Illustrated Shakespeare Collection
The Jonathan Swift Archive makes available digitized texts of Jonathan Swift’s prose works, transcribed from a great variety of early printed editions. The archive is an electronic supplement to the printed Cambridge Works of Jonathan Swift , 18 vols. (Cambridge University Press, 2008-).
Jonathan Swift
Biographical and contextual information, as well as literary criticism about Swift's work, from The Victorian Web
A Woman's Wit: Jane Austen's Life and Legacy
This exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum includes a biography of Jane Austen, a short documentary film, digitized versions of the Lady Susan manuscripts and original letters, selected images, and an article discussing Jane Austen's writing materials.
John Murray Archive at the National Library of Scotland
John Murray Archive contains documents spanning two hundred years, documenting the publishing firm's history. In the digitally-accessible Austen materials, you can view correspondence between Austen and her publisher, as well as a sales subscription list for Mansfield Park.
The Society was founded in 1940 by Dorothy Darnell with the purpose of raising funds to preserve the Cottage in the village of Chawton, Hampshire, where Jane Austen lived with her mother and sister Cassandra from 1809 to 1817.
The Jane Austen Society North America
The Jane Austen Society of North America is dedicated to the appreciation of Jane Austen and her writing. Join us in celebrating her life and works.