Information Literacy Tutorial

At the end of Part 7, you will be able to:

• Evaluate the reliability of an information source in terms of the entities and/or organizations who published the information source, and the reputations for quality and integrity of those entities/organizations
• Evaluate the authority of an information source in terms of the author's expertise and publication history
• Understand bias and agenda, and detect when there is strong potential for them in an information source
• Locate reviews of information sources, and know when it is necessary to check these
• Evaluate the validity of an information source from a general scholarly perspective about what constitutes valid knowledge
• Evaluate the accuracy of an information source against other information sources