Open Courseware:
Open Textbooks:
Open Textbooks:
- Choosing and Using Sources: A Guide to Academic Research (full textbook)
- Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers
- Information Literacy: Research and Collaboration across Disciplines Analysis handouts:
- Evaluating Information Sources Using the 5 Ws
- Evaluation sheet.pdf
- Article review handout
- Bias Meter.doc
- From Topic to Research Question: Steps in developing a topic and research questions
- Narrowing a Topic: Steps in exploring and refining a research topic
- Identifying Keywords: Tips on keyword searching in databases
- Basic Search Tips: Search strategies and ways to narrow/broaden a search
- Evaluating Sources Rhetorically: Page 1: Questions for evaluating sources rhetorically; Page 2: Illustration of Bizup's BEAM model for rhetorical source use.
- Evaluating Search Results: Tips for how to evaluate relevance of search results
- Is It Scholarly?: Questions for evaluating if a source is scholarly
- Know Your Sources (Portland Community College): Characteristics of a variety of online and academic source types to consider when selecting sources
- Reading a Scholarly Article: Tips on understanding and using scholarly articles
- Primary Sources: What primary sources how and how they can be used
- Useful Terms for Academic Research: Explains terms for different resource types