Resource Guide:
Information Research

• Information Literacy: Basic Research Skills
• Copy(write): Intellectual Property in the Writing Classroom
• The Information Literacy User’s Guide: An Open, Online Textbook
• Choosing and Using Sources: A Guide to Academic Research
• The Process of Research Writing
• The Debunking Handbook 2020
• The Better Arguments Project: Education Library
• Web Literacy and Student Fact-Checkers

The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• Library of Virginia
• The National Archives
• Chronicling America
• DocsTeach
• Media Literacy Now
• Common Sense Media
• Politifact
• PunditFact
• FactCheck
• Snopes

Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.

• Critical Thinking
• Fake News
• Information design
• Information literacy
• Local mass media
• Media literacy
• Media studies
• Research
• Research -- Handbooks

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• Academic Search Complete
• AP News
• Communication & Mass Media Complete
• Credo Reference
• HeinOnline
• JSTOR
• MasterFILE Premier
• Newspaper Source Plus
• Oxford Reference
• Proquest Dissertations and Theses Global
• Proquest Major Dailies
• Statista

Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.