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Evaluating Resources test - Resource types

Popular Vs Scholarly

Scholarly information: 

  • Are written by an expert(s) in the field
  • Are written for an academic audience (students,
    researchers etc)
  • Includes a reference list or bibliography
  • Are published in journals or by an academic press
  • May have been through a formalised review process
    (particularly in the case of journal articles)
  • May use technical or specialised language

Reitz, J. M. (2004). Dictionary for library and information
science. Libraries Unlimited. 

Scholarly & Popular Articles by adstarkel. Used under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

Evaluating Scholarly Resources

There are a number of ways sources of information can be evaluated to determine whether or not they are scholarly. The evaluation method you employ will depend on the type of resource in question, on the following pages we will look at ways to evaluate:

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