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Information and Literature Survey in Social Sciences Seema Sharma, Lovely Professional University

Notes Unit 11: Evaluation of Information Sources in

Social Science

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
11.1 Basics Guidelines for Evaluation of Information Sources
11.2 Evaluation of Secondary Sources of Information in Social Science
11.2.1 Features of Secondary Sources
11.3 Evaluation of Tertiary Sources of Information in Social Science
11.4 Evaluation of Distributed and Networked Information Sources
11.4.1 INFLIBNET (Information and Library Network)
11.4.2 NICNET (National Informatics Centre Network)
11.4.3 INDONET
11.4.4 Education and Research Network (ERNET)
11.5 Concluding Remarks
11.6 Summary
11.7 Keywords
11.8 Review Questions
11.9 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
y Describe the basic guidelines for evaluation of information sources
y Make evaluation of secondary and tertiary sources of information in social science
y Evaluate the networked and distributed sources of information.

Introduction

Information sources of Social Sciences shall be reviewed periodically for maintenance of its collection
to cater the current needs of the users. Evaluation shall be made whether the objectives of the source
are being achieved, how well and effectively are these being achieved? Has the source enhanced
the access to high quality social science information sources? Social science scholars shall also be
approached to collect their healthy/unhealthy views to make the access to the information more
efficient and effective.
As we discussed in the previous unit that the key sources of information can be classified under
primary, secondary and tertiary sources. In this unit we will evaluate the key secondary and tertiary
sources of information used in social science.

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