Library Guides: Library Information Literacy Skills Toolkit: EVALUATE

What is peer review?

Format: Video

Audience: Coursework students

Time to complete: 3 min 41 sec

Looking for peer reviewed content in OneSearch

Looking for peer reviewed content in OneSearch? by UWA Library

Format: Infographic

Audience: New students

Time to complete: 2 mins

Identify a Peer Reviewed Article

Format: Video

Audience: Undergraduate students, postgraduate coursework students

Time to complete: 2 min 45 sec

Scholarly versus popular sources

Scholarly vs Popular Sources by UWA Library

Format: Infographic

Audience: New students

Time to complete: 3 mins

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Characteristics of Popular, Trade and Scholarly Sources

Format: Module

Audience: Undergraduate and postgraduate by coursework students

Time to complete: 10 mins

Scholarly Source Checklist

Format: Checklist

Audience: Undergraduate and postgraduate coursework students

Time to complete: 10 mins

Anatomy of a journal article

Format: Interactive Infographic

Audience: New students

Time to complete: 5 mins

Scholarly sources: definitions

Scholarly Sources: Definitions by UWA Library

Format: Infographic

Audience: New students

Time to complete: 3 mins

<div style="position: relative; width: 45%; height: 0; padding-top: 63.4286%; padding-bottom: 48px; box-shadow: 0 2px 8px 0 rgba(63,69,81,0.16); margin-top: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.9em; overflow: hidden; border-radius: 8px; will-change: transform;"> <iframe style="position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%; top: 0; left: 0; border: none; padding: 0;margin: 0;" src="https://www.canva.com/design/DAEO3bmIAVk/view?embed"> </iframe> </div> <a href="https://www.canva.com/design/DAEO3bmIAVk/view?utm_content=DAEO3bmIAVk&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=embeds&utm_source=link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Journal</a> by UWA Library

Using the CRAAP test to evaluate your sources

Content: A self-check tool that students can use to test out whether their sources meet the CRAAP (Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy and Purpose) test requirements

Format: Interactive self-check

Audience: Undergraduate students

Time to complete: 15 mins

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How to spot fake news

Spotting fake news

Format: Infographic

Audience: Undergraduate and postgraduate coursework student

Time to complete: 5 mins

<div style="position: relative; width: 50%; height: 0; padding-top: 67.0000%; padding-bottom: 48px; box-shadow: 0 2px 8px 0 rgba(63,69,81,0.16); margin-top: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.9em; overflow: hidden; border-radius: 8px; will-change: transform;"> <iframe style="position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%; top: 0; left: 0; border: none; padding: 0;margin: 0;" src="https://www.canva.com/design/DAEPzdxIIhY/view?embed"> </iframe> </div> <a href="https://www.canva.com/design/DAEPzdxIIhY/view?utm_content=DAEPzdxIIhY&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=embeds&utm_source=link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Spotting fake news</a>

Evaluating your sources using website domains

What's that domain? by UWA Library

Format: Infographic

Audience: New students

Time to complete: 5 mins

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Recognising bias in your sources

Format: Checklist

Audience: Undergraduate and postgraduate coursework students

Time to complete: 15 mins

Identifying primary, secondary and tertiary sources

Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary sources by UWA Library

Format: Infographic

Audience: New students

Time to complete: 5 mins

Test google drive

Evaluate- Bias by UWA Library

Format: Infographic

Audience: New students

Time to complete: 5 mins

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z0yiIK-lvAZJ4pzWO5e2USpx849Gm9_M/view?usp=sharing

Wheel of sources

Format: Interactive module

Audience: New students

Time to complete: 10 min

License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US

Attribution: Module created by WI+RE. Retrieved from https://uclalibrary.github.io/research-tips/primary-secondary/

Evaluating tricky sources

Format: Checklist

Audience: Undergraduate and postgraduate by coursework students

Time to complete: 15 mins per source

How to evaluate the credibility of a source

Format: Video

Audience: Undergraduate students

Time to complete: 8 min 10 sec

University Library

Library Information Literacy Skills Toolkit: EVALUATE

Identifying Sources

Scholarly sources: definitions

What is peer review?

Anatomy of a journal article

Looking for peer reviewed content in OneSearch

What are primary, secondary and tertiary sources?

Assessing Source Quality

How to evaluate the credibility of a source

Scholarly versus popular sources

Characteristics of Popular, Trade and Scholarly Sources

Scholarly Sources Checklist

Evaluating your sources using website domains

Try it! Use the CRAAP test to evaluate your sources

How to spot fake news

Try it! Identifying bias in your sources

Try it! Evaluating Tricky Sources

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