A. Currency: the timeliness of the information Determining when an item of information was published or produced is an aspect of evaluating information. The date information was published or produced tells you how current it is or how contemporaneous it is with the topic you are researching For example: If you were doing a research on Covid-19. you would need the most recent information on the symptoms, cause and effect to human. Key indicators of the currency of the information are: - date of copyright date of publication date of revision or edition dates of sources cited date of patent or trademark​