Evaluating reliability

Look for:

Knowledgeable and acknowledged authors

Quality control.

 

Ask questions:

• Are the author's qualifications, such as education, job and position stated?
• Is the author acknowledged and considered as well-informed in this field?
• Does the author have any connections to respected institutions or organisations?
• Is the publisher reputable?
• If the source is found on the Internet, who owns the site where it was published?
• Is there any information about how to contact the author?
• Have independent experts evaluated the quality of the information before it was published?
• Are there any grammatical or orthographic errors?