Information Literacy Resources

Knowing how to evaluate information sources and recognizing biases, both your own and the source’s, is a critical component of being information literate.  

In addition to the tutorials and videos below, the Libraries provide subject specific recommendations to proven information resources. 

Learning Objectives:

• Researchers will learn how to identify source types
• Researchers will know how to recognize the difference between primary and secondary sources
• Researchers will understand that a source can be used as something to analyze or something to support their argument
• Researchers will learn what makes a source authoritative
• Researchers will understand what each type of source can offer them

Video Playlist Includes:

• Evaluation (0:45)
• Identifying source types (2:12)
• Primary and secondary sources (2:20)
• TELL ME MORE: Primary and secondary sources (1:10)
• Peer review (1:59)
• TELL ME MORE: Peer review (1:55)
• Scholarly journals (2:38)
• Scholarly books (1:45)
• Non-scholarly periodicals (2:30)
• Non-scholarly books (1:16)
• Websites (2:46)
• TELL ME MORE: Websites (2:51)
• Publications from governments, international organizations, and NGOs (2:48)
• Social media (1:10)