Library - Information Literacy Module: Tutorial 3: Information sources: Well-researched information

• Thorough information
• Well researched information
• Primary and secondary information
• Background and historical information
• Bibliography of other sources
• Information can be checked for accuracy
• Published once and sometimes further additions
• Format: Print or Electronic

• Title: Urban pollution and health risks

Library catalogue

• In-depth information
• Contains an abstract
• Written in academic language
• Aimed at the academic community
• Articles written by experts in their study fields 
• Peer-reviewed
• Charts and graphs
• Recent research on a topic
• Bibliographies of other sources
• Information can be checked for accuracy
• Credentials of author/researchers are provided
• Published in volumes and issues
• Available in print or in an electronic journal database

• Journal of Library and Information Science
• Journal of American Psychology
• Harvard Medical Journal

Library catalogue and databases

• Connected group of pages on the World Wide Web
• Organisational information (.org)
• Commercial information (.com)
• Educational information (.edu)
• Individual information
• Company information
• Social media
• Information cannot always be verified or checked for accuracy
• Textual information
• Visual information
• Multimedia
• Interactive

• Information is devoted to a single topic or several closely related topics
• Message boards
• Social Media sites
• Academic journals (etc)