Sources of information on COVID-19 and the fight against fake news
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https://doi.org/10.62758/re.v2i3.102Keywords:
Librarians, Resource Guide, Disinformation, COVID-19;, Access to InformationAbstract
During the COVID-19 pandemic, a rapid spread of fake news about the disease and its consequences was observed. In this scenario, it was urgent to have information professionals who participated in the fight against this type of action. In this sense, the objective of this work is to share quality information resources and propose ways of evaluating health information in Brazil and Latin America, available on the Internet as one more means to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. To do this, bibliographic searches were carried out on information resources to combat misinformation about COVID-19, using the PUBMED databases, the Virtual Health Library (VHL), BRAPCI, academic Google, the WHO website and different publishers. As a result, 4 support tools against disinformation, infoxication and infodemic were identified, which can be used for information evaluation by librarians and information professionals: the infographic of the International Federation of Library Associations and Libraries (IFLA) , with eight stages to identify fake news and verify the source of the news; the Health On the Net (HON) compliance certification seal, which indicates pages with trustworthy content on the Internet; the criteria of the Health Information Technology Institute (Hiti), through the Health Summit Working Group (HSWG), which describe seven parameters to analyze a Web page; and the Daraz and Bouseh Protocol, a quality benchmark for determining the credibility of health information on the web. These tools can assist the librarian in assisting health professionals in the search and retrieval of information of quality, thus contributing to decision-making.
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