When searching for information beyond the databases available via Locate, it is important to evaluate that information to ensure that it is appropriate for academic purposes. Searching on the internet can often produce an overwhelming amount of results and it can be difficult to decide what can be used in your assignments.
Rather than go into a lot of detail here, I have found a video from YouTube produced by a librarian that explains how to evaluate information using the CRAAP test. This acronym stands for, Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy and Purpose and can be used as a guide to evaluation.
The video is available from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAWhE0mj69I
There are plenty of other videos available on YouTube on this subject. Like the one above, many are produced by University libraries (often in the US), so you can ignore anything that is specific to their library.
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