PSY 458 - Capstone in Neuroscience: Evaluating Sources

Currency

• What has changed since the publication date? 
• Is it still being used as a resource?

Author

• Who is the author?
• Are they an expert?
  • You can look at their Web of Science author profile, their ORCID profile, Google Scholar profile, or their website
• What else has the author written?
• In which contexts does the author have expertise?
  • Does the author represent a particular set of world views? 
  • Do they represent specific gender, sexual, racial, political, social and/or cultural orientations?
  • Do they have a formal role in a particular institution (e.g. a professor at Oxford)? 

Source

• Is it a scholarly publication?
• Who is the publisher?
• Check Ulrich's Periodicals Directory

Publication

• Is this the final version?
• Has there been a rebuttal, correction or review been published?