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ASSIGNMENT 2 - Evaluate the websites below as academically reliable sources of information.

Name of Internet Address Who/What is the What is the purpose of the organisation Is it academically Why/Why not?
Website/Author author/organisation? or site? reliable?
/Organisation (Yes/No)

1 Wikipedia Anybody can write or edit

the content / Authors
anonymous / Owned by a
not for profit foundation.
Editors check content
meets their own guidelines
and policies

2 us.sensodyne.com Toothpaste brand owned

by Glaxo SmithKline group
of companies

3 www.dentist.net Website for online

shopping of dental
products

4 World Health Home page/About WHO/

Organisation “the directing and
coordinating authority for
health within the United
Nations system”

5 http://www.gdc- “We are the organisation

uk.org/ which regulates dental
professionals in the UK”
(top of homepage)
6 http:// Dental Institute of King’s
www.kcl.ac.uk/ College, London
schools/dentistry/

7 Oman Medical http:// Oman Medical Journal is

Journal website www.omjournal.org published six times a year
by Oman Medical
Specialty Board. It is
distributed free to all
medical doctors and allied
health professionals in
various institutions locally
and internationally.

8 Links to Free www.external.shl.lon Library, University of

Dentistry .ac.uk/res/subjects/ London
Resources on index.php?
University of group=dent
London Dentistry
Gateway