Finding Reliable Information Online: Adventures of an Information Sleuth

Second has been the rise of open-access journals. These are journals that allow readers to access the published articles for free and instead derive most of their revenue from charging the authors Article Processing Charges. Some of the name brand journals also have a hybrid model where authors can pay to make their research open-access. And the pr... See more

One alternative to this state of affairs is to ditch the idea, should we be under its sway, that what we need to make our way in the world is simply more information. For one thing, there are practical difficulties: even in cases where more information might be genuinely helpful, it may not be forthcoming when we need it. But, more importantly, som... See more