Understanding credibility across disciplinary boundaries

While credibility research is highly interdisciplinary, there is little interaction across researchers from various disciplines. This is unfortunate, as each disciplinary approach can inform the other, and together have potential to improve the corpus of credibility research. Researchers from fields as diverse as education, communication, psychology, library and information science, computer science, health informatics, and geography have tackled the issue of credibility of Web-based information-a topic that is growing in importance as more people rely on the Internet for information, and as more information is available online from more sources than ever before in human history.