ED POL/HISTORY 143: History of Race and Inequality in Urban America (Spring 2024) : Evaluate Sources

Evaluating Sources Tips (Text Tutorial):  Criteria to consider when evaluating the information you find.

Identifying Scholarly Articles (Text and Video Tutorials):  List of descriptive characteristics for identifying scholarly articles.

Reading Scholarly Articles (Tutorial):  Interactive tutorial on how to identify parts of a scholarly article for understanding it and determining its quality and reliability.

Scholarly articles undergo a peer review process before they are published. This means that experts in the field are invited by the journal editors to review the quality of the article, and make suggestions for improvements before publication. 

This video explains the peer review process:

Peer Review in Three Minutes (from NC State Libraries)