Critically Evaluating Your Sources
Learning Outcome:
- Evaluate information for credibility, relevance, and/or other factors such as timeliness
Evaluating Sources
This interactive tutorial guides students through evaluating sources based on their research needs. (Best with Firefox browser.)
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Identify Peer Reviewed Articles
This video describes the peer review process that many scholarly journals use, and how to identify peer-reviewed articles when searching.
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What does the "peer review" filter mean?
This video covers some of the same ground as the previous one, but focuses specifically on what the "peer review" filter in the Libraries' catalog does and does not do - and when it makes sense to use it.
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Information Cycle
This video takes students through different types of information sources, how they are produced and how much time it takes to do so, and how to use different types of sources to create a full picture of a topic.
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