Why would readers prefer to forage the Web rather than use a well-structured book? The Web has a wider scope than any book and Google returns information faster than a trip to the bookshelf or the library.
How do you know a paper is legit?
From the "Calling Bullshit' course. Even peer-reviewed academic journal articles can be wrong. You cannot trust everything simply because it appears in an academic journal. Howto distinguish "relative trustworthtiness".
- Journal rankings: Google scholar metrics
- http://
flourishoa.org/ : a system for identifying high-quality, high-value open access journals
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