CCAD Packard Library: CCAD Library Research Tutorial: Evaluate What You Find

Evaluating Sources to Find Quality Research

Evaluating what you find depends a lot on what you are researching and why. Watch this brief video for more information:

Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers...and other people who care about facts
A web-book on how students can use the same techniques fact-checkers use to evaluate sources on the internet.
Crash Course: Navigating Digital Information
Playlist of 11 videos on evaluating online resources.

Evaluating Database Search Results

Watch this excellent video from Portland Community College on reading search results from EBSCO databases. We subscribe to many EBSCO databases so the information is relevant for us, too!

Evaluating Internet Sources

Try these sites to verify your facts.

AllSides Media Bias Ratings
Check your news source to see if it skews to the left, right, or center.
Factcheck.org
A nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics.
Logically.AI
Uses AI to identify and tackle harmful and manipulative content at speed and at scale by ingesting content and data from social platforms, online media source and websites.
Mediabiasfactcheck.com
Uses four main categories to assess political bias and factuality of media sources: (1) use of wording and headlines (2) fact-checking and sourcing (3) choice of stories and (4) political affiliation.
Snopes.com
Useful and accurate fact-checking site. Each item investigated includes the claim and verdict at the beginning (false, unproven, true) as well as the origin of the claim.
Who Is
Want to know who is publishing a website? Look it up on WhoIs!

Library & Information Technology

CCAD Library Research Tutorial

Evaluating Sources to Find Quality Research

Evaluating Database Search Results

Evaluating Internet Sources

Try these sites to verify your facts.

Critical Thinking Cheat Sheet

Knowledge Check