## Evaluating publications

## Criteria

In the Searchlight Basic course, you learned what to look out for when evaluating websites. There are also a number of interrelated criteria which you should apply when evaluating publications. These are the same for most publications. As you can see from the chart below, there are a number of additional criteria specifically for scholarly publications. They are explained immediately below the chart. You can also use a checklist. This is a Word document, so you can save it and print it.

Relevance

Reliability