Summary

Illustratie door Jurriaan Gorter, gepubliceerd onder een Creative Commons Naamsvermelding 3.0 Nederland licentie

Look critically and systematically at the information you find. Evaluate not only the individual articles, books and websites you find, but also try to assess whether your search was good.

Relevance

Relevance is the extent to which the information is applicable to your report.

Reliability

The degree to which you can trust that the information is correct.
If multiple sources confirm the information, this is a sign that the information is probably correct. When a source does not seem reliable, you can do two things:

  Consider not using this source.
  Post a critical comment.

Topicality

A current book or article need not always be recent. Core publications retain their value over the years.