In general, reliability means consistency, quality and integrity.
In the case of a scholarly information source, like a monograph or scholarly journal article, you know:
Plus, with scholarly information sources, it is easy to identify:
You can learn a lot about an information source by looking at the the organization(s) responsible for producing it. Some questions to ask when encountering non-scholarly information sources:
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