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Evaluate Sources

Why Do We Evaluate Sources?

In addition to understanding how to find sources, it is crucial that we understand how to evaluate those sources. With more information than ever before at our fingertips, we are responsible for learning from, sharing, and recommending reliable sources.

This LibGuide shares tools to evaluate different information sources like academic journal articles, websites, magazines, and popular news sources.

Evaluation Tools

Experts use different evaluation tools for different information source types. As we search for different types of information, we may need to use one or more tools to help us determine if that resource is a good fit for our information need.