Evaluating the reliability of your search results 9 December
Evaluating the reliability of your search results
This seminar will focus on strategies for evaluating the reliability and quality of information found through academic searches. Participants will learn how to assess sources using key criteria such as authority, accuracy, relevance, and currency, and how to recognise potential bias or misinformation. The session will introduce practical frameworks and critical thinking approaches to help students make informed decisions about which sources to trust and use in their work.
9 December 2025, 1:10pm-2:10pm
Virtually using Microsoft Teams
Unable to attend? Take a look at our Evaluating your search results video, which is designed to help you understand the importance of evaluating the sources of information you use in your assignments and to give you a set of criteria with which to evaluate this information to make sure that it's of good academic quality rather than just general interest information.
Evaluating information is a Sway that will help you to develop tools and techniques you can use to evaluate information, discusses the phenomenon of fake news, and the importance of developing information and digital literacy.
- Event date
- Event Time
- 1:10PM
- Location
- Virtually using Microsoft Teams
- Organiser
- Librarian Team
- Contact email
- library.help@keele.ac.uk
- Contact telephone
- 01782731940
