Evaluating Online Information

Here are just some of the article types in PubMed:

There is a great amount of information availabe in different formats online. Just because it is online does not mean it is a journal article, and different articles have different purposes. 

Here are just some of the article types in PubMed:

• Clinical Trial 
• Editorial
• Commentary
• Case Reports
• Practice Guideline
• Letter
• Journal Article
• Randomized Controlled Trial
• Newspaper Article
• Systematic Review

When you are in a detailed record in PubMed look under Publication Types to determine the type of article it is:

To the untrained eye this may look like a research article, but this is only a two page editorial. 

When you are in a detailed record in CINAHL look for publication type to determine the type of article: