Abstract: In documentation process is well known that first impulse is to try to find information on the web. Information literacy courses modules teach the strategies and methods to find information on the web. The purpose of this presentation is to investigate information quality assessment of information retrieved on the web. This paper reports on a usage study that was conducted in the autumn of 2010. The study included a survey of master students of Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics Department behavior regarding information quality assessment on the web. These four components, consider ting core category were analyzed: credibility of content, credibility of site, predictive relevance and veracity assessment. Content analysis and descriptive statistics were used to identify all attributes of quality assessment.

Brief Biography of the Speaker:
Prof. dr. Angela REPANOVICI teaches in the University Transilvania of Brasov, Romania to Mechanical Engineering Faculty. In 1999 she sustains one PhD thesis in technical science and in 2009 she sustains a PhD thesis in marketing in joint trusteeship with the field of information science. Her research is focused on information literacy, informatization systems, mechatronics systems used in archives and libraries, marketing research and scientometric studies.