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• InfoGate2
  • Introduction
  • Define your topic and information needs
    • Define your topic
    • Identity Concepts
    • Identify Concepts: key words
    • Search strategies
    • Search strategies: And
    • Search strategies: Or
    • Evaluate your search
    • Refine your search
    • Expand your search
    • Determining your information needs
    • Exercises
  • Locate information through the catalogue
    • Books
    • Search by title
    • Search by author
    • Search by keyword
    • Journals
    • Journals: type
    • Journals: academic
    • Locating journals
    • Locating journals: catalogue
    • Exercises
  • Locate information through databases
    • Database
    • Structure
    • Types
    • Types: bibliographic
    • Types: fulltext
    • Types: statistical
    • Types: image/audio
    • Coverage
    • Coverage: subjects
    • Coverage: publication type
    • Coverage: geographic
    • Features
    • Features: searching
    • Search strategies
    • Database help
    • Keyword search
    • Subject heading
    • Boolean operators
    • Boolean: And
    • Boolean: Or
    • Boolean: Not
    • Truncation
    • Limiting searches
    • Limiting: options
    • Search results
    • Evaluate results
    • Managing results
    • Exercises
  • Locate information through the web
    • Web
    • Types
    • Search tool
    • Search engines
    • Meta searches
  • Evaluate your information
    • Relevance
    • Audience
    • Specialised audiences
    • Specialised information
    • Detailed information
    • Time and place
    • Primary or secondary
    • Quality
    • Reliability
    • Author/producer
    • Author/producer identification
    • Qualifications/experience
    • Authoritative sources
    • Publisher
    • Editing/reviewing
    • Accuracy/bias
    • Presentation
    • Checking
    • Language
    • Bias
    • Balance
    • Recency
    • Timeliness
    • How up-to-date
    • Exercises
  • Organise your information
    • Grouping materials by ideas on content
    • Creating an outline
    • Creating an outline: answer
    • Concept mapping
    • Mind mapping
    • Manage references
    • Exercise
  • Manage your references
    • Products
    • Obtain products at UniSA
    • Learn EndNote or RefWorks
    • Support and help
  • Use information appropriately
    • Plagiarism
    • Copyright
    • Copyright law
    • Fair dealing
    • Electronic information
    • Citing sources
    • Style manuals
    • Privacy
    • History
    • Cookies
    • Copyright
    • Tracking newsgroup
    • Exercise
  • Use technology to communicate
    • Getting Started
    • Online@UniSA
    • Managing information with technology

Relevance of sources

The relevance of an information source relates to how useful the source is for your particular assignment or study task.

To decide the relevance of an information source you will need to consider some or all of the following questions:

• what type of audience is the information produced for?
• is the information specialised enough for your needs?
• is the information detailed enough for your needs?
• does the information cover your topic in terms of time and place?
• is the information a primary or secondary source?