Information Skills for Health

  The Internet is a great place to start looking for information and there are some great healthcare based resources available. In your work and studies you need to make sure that you are using good quality, relevant information. So... Complete our tutorial Evaluating Information on the Internet to learn how you can check online resources. For more help with literature searching: Take a look at  more etutorials Book a training session Contact the Health Library

  Make sure you only use good quality information sources. How can you do that? Use the CRAAP checklist. The WHAT ? Watch the video to learn more: For more help with literature searching: Take a look at  more etutorials Book a training session Contact the Health Library

 When you are searching for information for either your studies or work, you may get many results. How do you know that those articles are going to be good quality and relevant to your search question? Evaluating your results against a set of criteria will help to systematically select or reject the content you have found. Complete our short etutorial Evaluating Information to learn more about what steps you can take to evaluate the resources you find.

 Do you want a quick checklist to help you to evaluate the resources you find whilst searching for information? Watch our video to see if the CRAAP checklist can help you: For more help evaluating resources see our Information Skills etutorials .

 The Internet is a great place to start looking for information. But do you know how to evaluate what you find so that you only use good quality, healthcare specific information? We've got a few tips to help you sort out the good stuff - go to the sway (below) for more details. Evaluating Information on the Internet The Internet is a great place to start looking for information and there are some great healthcare based resources available. In your work and studies you need to make sure that you are usi… Go to this Sway

Once you have found some information resources you need to check whether they are going to help answer your question. The CRAAP test is a tool to help you to remember what to check for when you are deciding whether to use the information source that you have found. It covers the basics that you need to think about. Summary of the CRAAP checklist - currency, relevancy, authority, accuracy and purpose When you use the CRAAP test you should check the resource you are evaluating for: Currency – is the resource you are looking at recent? Does it contain up-to-date information? Relevancy – is the information relevant to your question. Don’t waste your time looking at irrelevant information Authority – can you tell who has written the information? Who is the publisher or author? Are they qualified on this topic? Accuracy – is the information accurate? Does the argument flow logically? Are there references that you can validate? Purpose – what is the key purpose of the resource?...