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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