Sometimes websites can provide excellent resources to support your ideas. Make sure you are checking the credibility of the internet source by checking with your instructor, a librarian, or by using tools for evaluating sources.
The following are a few reliable internet sources to try:
- Allsides - Balanced news, addresses media bias.
- Brookings Institution - Non-profit Public Policy. Researches societal issues and provides data on trends.
- The Conversation - Non-profit, independent news organization. Includes ProCon articles and covers a variety of topics.
- Futurity - Published research from top universities, written for a general audience.
- OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) - Provides evidence-based international data on a range of global issues.
- Pew Research - Non-partisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world with a focus on the U.S.
- Snopes.com - Fact checking and information verification site.
- World Factbook from the CIA - Provides information on the history, people and society, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
