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Metaliteracy

This guide will help you find and recognize reliable, credible information sources you find on the internet. You will discover it’s easier, and faster, to find better quality information using the library’s journal databases, videos, and books.

Rumi

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
― Jalāl ad-Dīn Rūmī

Source: Oxford Dictionaries. (2016). Word of the year 2016 is...
Retrieved from: https://languages.oup.com/word-of-the-year/word-of-the-year-2016

Research 101: Credibility is Contextual

Credibility is Contextual

Trustworthiness
Depth of information needed
Many valuable sources
Remain skeptical
- Who created the source?
- Why are they sharing it?
- What is the publication process?

Source: Eisen, A. [University of Washington Libraries] (2014, June 13). Research 101: Credibility is Contextual [Video file]. Retrieved from http://guides.lib.uw.edu/research/UWresearch101/ CC BY-NC 4.0

Exercise #6: The New York Times 1980-

ProQuest, New York Times library.plymouth.edu

From the library home page,

select "databases"
select New York Times 1980-
search for "autism AND vaccines"
main an article to yourself

Last Updated: Jul 12, 2023 2:27 PM
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