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Is the content appropriate for your research topic or
assignment?
(Consider scholarly vs. popular, fact
vs. opinion, format/medium (e.g., book, journal, government
report, web site, etc.), subject coverage, language, time
period, geographical area, audience, primary (e.g., raw
data, diaries, literature, photographs, first-hand accounts
of an event, research reports, etc.) vs. secondary
(information that has been analyzed and interpreted, e.g.,
literary criticism, most books, review of an art show or
play, etc.) |
- Check the table of contents or scan the subheadings
- Read the preface, abstract, introduction, and/or
conclusion
- Look for footnotes or endnotes and/or a bibliography
- Look for reviews
- Magazines for Libraries
- Book reviews
- Internet Scout Report
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