Finding Trusted Academic Sources

Can you trust this website?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Kingdom

• Definitely trust

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• Definitely cannot trust

Can you trust this website to find a definition of the term 'pension'?

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-work-pensions

• Definitely trust

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• Probably not trust

• Definitely not trust

Can you trust this website to provide accurate data about crime in the UK?

https://www.met.police.uk/

• Definitely trust

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• Probably not trust

• Definitely not trust

Can you trust this website to get reliable data about the effectiveness of government services?

https://www.gov.uk/performance

• Definitely trust

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• Probably not trust

• Definitely not trust

Can you trust this website for information about the health benefits of yoga?

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/exercise/guide-to-yoga/

• Definitely trust

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• Probably not trust

• Definitely not trust

The following website can be trusted for nutritional information about chocolate:

https://www.lindt.co.uk

• Definitely trust

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• Probably not trust

• Definitely not trust

Google Scholar is useful to find...

• Online shops

• Business websites

• Academic Journal articles

• Fiction books

• Cited research

The best place to start any academic search is (a)  

All journal articles have

• multiple pages

• a volume number (or year)

• a Reference List

• an issue number

• multiple authors

On Google Scholar, you can limit the search...

• by custom date range (from... to...)

• to a specific year (e.g. 2012)

• to a specific month (e.g. January)

• by adding extra key words to the search