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KINE 306 Course Guide

What are Authoritative Health Sources?

What are authoritative sources?

  • written by reputable national or international organizations or government agencies
  • written for the general public
  • Purpose: to inform or educate
  • usually include evidence for their claims 
  • can be detailed, informational webpages or government/institutional reports

What are some examples?

Search Tips

Keywords

  • Be flexible with your keywords!
  • You may need to broaden your topic to find relevant authoritative sources. For example, I may need to expand my topic of yoga and depression to alternative medicine and depression if I can't find any relevant authoritative sources.

 

Advanced Google Searching

  • Use advanced google searching to limit results by a domain (.gov or .org) or by a particular website (nih.gov).
Search in Google Explanation
yoga depression site:.gov Only returns results from government websites
yoga depression site:.org Only returns results from websites with the domain ending .org
yoga depression site:nih.gov Only returns results from the National Institute of Health website

Subjects: Kinesiology