Search Smart! Evaluate your sources

‘Search Smart! Evaluate your sources’ is a crash course on effectively evaluating resources and understanding the differences between a primary and a secondary source. This video is an adaptation of the ‘Search Smart! Evaluate your sources’ workshop delivered by QUT Library. The transcript for this video is available on our website at: https://www.library.qut.edu.au/transcripts/searchsmart-evaulate.jsp Content in this workshops is based on the following Study Smart modules: • Module 3.1.2 Evaluate your sources https://studysmart.library.qut.edu.au/modules/3/1/2/ • Module 1.3.1 Primary and secondary sources https://studysmart.library.qut.edu.au/modules/1/3/1/ 00:00 Introduction 01:15 Criteria for evaluating sources 01:37 Authority 03:35 Currency 05:44 Purpose & objectivity 08:33 Reliability 10:41 Choosing the right source 11:33 Evaluating sources activity 12:45 Primary and secondary sources 13:20 Primary sources 14:34 Secondary sources 15:27 Need help? This video is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Licence. Some third party images may have been licensed to QUT. The QUT logo, the "real world" wordmark, and any combination of the foregoing, whether integrated into a larger whole or standing alone, are registered Trade Marks of the Queensland University of Technology, and their use is subject to the approval of the Publications Manager. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same licence as the original. Under the CC licence you must give attribution to: Library, Queensland University of Technology (QUT).