Evaluating Academic Sources in the Sciences 

This video lecture describes how to evaluate if an academic (also called scholarly) source is credible and appropriate to use in your research.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:24 Why evaluate academic sources?
2:47 Criteria for evaluating sources
3:42 Who is responsible for the content?
3:59 Author
6:56 Publisher
12:15 Funding organization
13:09 What about the content itself?
13:32 Relevance
15:53 Currency
17:25 Accuracy
19:08 Impact on the field
21:35 Have questions? Ask a Librarian!