Criticism of the Sources

Criticism of the sources refers to the attempt to establish the sources used by the author and/or redactor of a final text. You must be able to critically scrutinize and evaluate the information you are about to use in your pieces of work.

This implies identifying the source and its authenticity, defining its value over time and space, establishing the objectivity or bias of the source, or its relation to similar sources within the subject.

Guides and Manuals on the Web

• Internet Detective
  From University of Bristol
• Source Criticism
  From the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
• Topicality and Reliability of Printed Documents
  From the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Book suggestions

• Historical information science : an emerging unidiscipline / Lawrence J. McCrank