What sources can be considered as credible and reliable?
• Materials published within the last 10 years like journals
• Research articles written by respected and well-known authors
• Websites registered by government and educational institutions with domains ending with .gov, .edu, .ac
• Academic databases
• Materials from Google Scholar.
• Out-of-date materials (published over 10 years ago);
• Posts from social networks (i.e. Facebook) but LinkedIn is considered as professional;
• Blogs;
• Research articles without citations;
• Websites ending in .com, .org, .net etc. But, history.com is a
NB! Wikipedia can never be considered as a reliable source of information since it can be edited by anyone.
• Materials published within the last 10 years like journals
• Research articles written by respected and well-known authors
• Websites registered by government and educational institutions with domains ending with .gov, .edu, .ac
• Well know news sites like Forbes, New York Times, The Atlantic, npr, etc.
• Professional bodies sites like SHRM
• Academic databases
• Materials from Google Scholar.
What sources should be avoided?
• Out-of-date materials (published over 10 years ago);
• Posts from social networks (i.e. Facebook) but LinkedIn is considered as professional;
• Blogs;
• Research articles without citations;
• Websites ending in .com, .org, .net etc. But, history.com is a
NB! Wikipedia can never be considered as a reliable source of information since it can be edited by anyone.
