Evaluating General Information (Coverage)

Information Competence

Is the information complete or abridged?

Most information is published in its entirety

For example, this is a complete edition of the novel, Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes.

Call number	PQ6323 .A1 1979b
Author	Cervantes Saavedra Miguel de 1547-1616.
Title	Don Quixote Don Quixote de la Mancha / [por] Miguel Cervantes Saavedra ; edicion, estudio y notas de Juan Bautista Avalle-Arce ...
Edition	1. ed.
Publisher	Madrid [etc.] : Alhambra, 1979.

However, information may also be published in an abbreviated or abridged version

Call number	PQ63239 .A2 1930
Author	Cervantes Saavedra Miguel de 1547-1616.
Title	Don Quixote Don Quijote de la Mancha. Edited and abridged by Susan Sheridan.
Publisher	New York, The Macmillan Company, 1927.

This version of Don Quixote has been abridged, i.e. shortened by editing some of the text while retaining the basic content of the story.

Some information sources only provide an abstract or summary of the full publication.

This source presents only a plot summary of Cervantes' classic work