TMU Databases
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Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research. - ProQuest Databases Platform This link opens in a new window
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Search across all ProQuest databases we subscribe to, or to choose a custom set of databases based on your needs. - Scholars Portal Journals This link opens in a new window
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Scholars Portal Journals is a digital repository of over 22 million scholarly articles drawn from journals covering every academic discipline.
Websites to Help Assess New Sites and Stories
- Media Bias Fact CheckMedia Bias Fact Check is a source for basic identification of the political bias of news sites.
- FactCheck.orgMonitors the accuracy of U.S. political stories.
- PoliFactMonitors the accuracy of political stories.
- SnopesFact checks internet rumours and stories.
- False, Misleading ...Zimdars, Mellissa (2016) False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and Misleading "News" Sources. University of Toronto Libraries.
Article Resources
- DOAJThe Directory of Open Access Journals is a collection of over 10,000 publications, aimed at creating a comprehensive index of high quality Open Access journals. Journals which best exemplify openness and quality are awarded the DOAJ Seal.
- BioMedBioMed Central is an open access publisher owned by Springer. Over 260 journals in the fields of science, technology, and medicine are published by BioMed Central.
- JURNJURN is an open access journal article search engine dedicated to the Arts and the Humanities. Since spring 2014 it has also included articles on science, business, and other topics.
- PLoSPLOS (Public Library of Science) is a nonprofit journal publisher that publishes several Open Access science journals. Most journals are restricted to a single subject, and some have subjective selection criteria, but PLOS ONE accepts all technically and ethically sound research.
- PubMed CentralPubMed Central is an archive of freely available biomedical and life science journal articles compiled by the US National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). Over 3.5 million articles are available.
Fact-Checking Guidebooks
- Verification Handbook For Disinformation And Media ManipulationToday’s information environment is more chaotic and easier to manipulate than ever before. This book equips journalists with the knowledge to investigate social media accounts, bots, private messaging apps, information operations, deep fakes, as well as other forms of disinformation and media manipulation.
- Lies, Damn Lies and Viral ContentThis guidebook by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism describes how and why rumours and misinformation can become viral. It offers a specific set of best practices to counter misinformation.
- Web Literacy for Student Fact-CheckersThis is an unabashedly practical guide for the student fact-checker and other people who also want to verify facts. It supplements generic information literacy with the specific web-based techniques that can get you closer to the truth on the web more quickly.
- The Digital Citizenship Toolkit: Developing Evaluative Literacy SkillsThis TMU published open textbook describes how to be a responsible digital citizen. Chapter 5, Evaluative Literacy, covers online search and gives a toolkit for lateral reading and fact-checking.