User: | Open Learning Faculty Member:
- A) say what the source is (and/or link to it)\
Text book off my shelf
Veterinary Herbal Medicine – Susan G. Wynn , Barbara J. Fougere
Publisher MOSBY ELSEVIER ( academic publisher of textbooks and academic journals)
- b) classify it into one of the four types of information discussed in the tutorial
Written by experts in the field :
Susan G. Wynn – DVM RH . Bells Ferry Veterinary Hospital , College of Veterinary Medicine
Barbara J. Fougere – BSc, BVMS(Hons) MODT, BHSc ( Comp. Med), CVA(IVAS) CVCP, CV Herb Med, MHSc ( Herb Med) ENR All Natural Vet Care in Sydney Australia
The source was contributed to by 18 other academics in the field . Ranging from Botanists, Veterinarians, RHTs and Toxicologists . Though from my understanding a text book is technically not peer reviewed.
Under the acknowledgment section “ We could have not have done it without our authors, and we have relied upon reviewers to survey the information for errors. We thank Joni Freshman, Patricia Upton , David Wintson and Eric Yarnell for previewing the chapters for accuracy. “
The book reports studies, results, methods but not from the authors themselves.
I would say that this textbook is an academic material .
I chose this categorization because though this book was contributed to by other experts – there is no mention of an official review. They do mention in the acknowledgment section that the they thank the reviewers – but these names mentioned are not acknowledged as experts in the field. The text is written by experts in the field. It contains scientific material, bibliographies, in text citations and method/result sections. Though the scientific studies were not conducted specifically by the authors.
