4. Evaluating

Once you have searched for and found information, it is important to critically assess whether the information is relevant, reliable, current, and complete.

In general, the sources you find through the library are reliable. However, information is always coloured by the intentions of its creators. Therefore always use different sources and compare them with each other.

This section covers the following:

4.1 Relevance

4.2 Reliability

4.3 Validity

4.4 Completeness

4.5 CRAAP

4.6 Assessing academic articles