Locating & Evaluating Information

Locating Information
Once you have found records of where a book or article can be found, you need to physically find it. It can quite easily be found on the library shelves or within electronic databases or on the Internet, if you learn to use some simple techniques to locate it. Then comes the harder part: to evaluate what has been found.
Locate Information:

The names for other collections in the Library are Standards, Patents, Technical Reports, Audio/ Visual materials, Microfiche, Microfilm, etc.
To get particular and more information please contact our Circulation Desk

Citations of journal articles can come from various sources, but perhaps most often from searches through our online 'Access to Journal Content' for our print volume collection. Or one can search and access 'Full Text Electronic Version' to have their requirement directly from their desktop.
Locating information some relevant webpages and tutorials.
1. http://www.une.edu.au/library/infolit/interpreting.htm
2. http://www.library.unisa.edu.au/resmeth/obtain/obtain.htm

Evaluating Information:
Evaluating information has always been important Books, articles, websites, etc can be evaluated, to some extent, according to some general and commonly used criteria like scope, timeliness, authority, accuracy and point of view.
To evaluate scope one can think of: -

Evaluating timeliness includes looking at:

Authority involves authorship, includes looking at:

Some of the factors to consider are: reputation, achievements, qualifications, expertise in particular areas, affiliations, position held, previous publications,

The accuracy and truthfulness of a work is the most important attribute.Sometimes checklists like below help to judge the accuracy and truthfulness. These may be:

Further links: http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~agsmith/evaln/index.htm