https://dictionary.cambridge.org/
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How current is information? Is it up to date? What is the copyright, publication, or posting date? Is the information time-sensitive and outdate? |
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How important information for my research? Does it relate to the topic and research questions? Am I from intended audience? |
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Who is author? Publisher? Sponsor? Creator? What is his/her affiliation? Background? Credentials? Contacts/? |
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Can you trust the source? Is it scholarly or peer-reviewed? Where did it come from? References or evidences? Errors? Broken links? |
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Is it a fact? Biased opinion or argument and balanced view of the topic? Is the purpose clearly stated? To inform? To advertise? To persuade? |
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encyclopedia, general introductions, overview |
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tertiary sources, primary sources, raw data |
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primary, secondary sources; literature review |
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research study procedures, methodologies, manuals, handbooks, strict definitions, and discipline specific vocabulary |
Redistributed from the LibGuide of Andrea Baer and Dan Kipnis at Rowan University and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC-BY-NC-SA).
https://libguides.rowan.edu/EvaluatingOnlineSources#s-lg-box-21820618
Created by Dawn Stahura of Salem State University Library, this aims to shift the focus of evaluating information from an "informed cultural producers" rather as a consumer of information. ACT UP aims to "actively engage in dismantling oppressions" and do more proactive evaluation.
Source:
https://guides.lib.lsu.edu/ENG1001/ACT_UP
https://libguides.salemstate.edu/c.php?g=955102&p=6892068
Predatory publishers
Find the checklist to evaluate the reputation of journals in Selecting a Journal for Publication: Predatory Publishing.