Featured Resource
- Star Wars: The Source AwakensYoutube, Nick Streif
Evaluating Websites
Remember to always evaluate a website before using it for research purposes.
Some criteria for evaluating websites include:
- Accuracy
- Authority
- Coverage
- Currency
- Objectivity
- Purpose
- Support
You can always ask a librarian or your professor for an opinion about a specific website as well.
(Ruth Szpunar at DePauw University)
Examples
- Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics The Rosalind Franklin papers
Papers of Rosalind Franklin, best known for her work in X-ray diffraction patterns of DNA.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Call Number: e-BookISBN: 9780760351451Publication Date: 2016
Benjamin Franklin's Science by Call Number: SBU BOL Book 509.2 C66bISBN: 0674066588Publication Date: 1990-04-01Cohen reveals the important theoretical side to Franklin's scientific work. He traces his study, especially of Newton, and examines the theoretical basis of his electricity experiments.
- Rosalind Franklin British scientistThe Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica , LAST UPDATED: Jul 21, 2020
- Benjamin FranklinWikipedia Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License;
Primary, Secondary, Tertiary & Grey Literature
- Primary, Secondary & Tertiary SourcesOhio State University Pressbooks. Choosing & Using Sources: A Guide to Academic Research by Teaching & Learning, Ohio State University Libraries is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
- 10.1 Types of Sources: Primary, Secondary, TertiaryA Guide to Rhetoric, Genre, and Success in First-Year Writing by Melanie Gagich & Emilie Zickel is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
- Research Foundations: Primary, Secondary, & Tertiary MaterialsSeminole State College
- Primary, Secondary, & Tertiary Sources
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A Youtube video created by Suffolk County Community College Library, JMM, 06/2012. - Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Sources in the Health SciencesAn Univ. of Minnesota, Biomedical Library resource
- What is a Primary Resource?
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UCSD Libraries, Social Sciences & Humanities Library - Researching Online for College Students: Five Easy Steps
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What is grey literature? The Fourth International Conference on Grey Literature (1999) defined grey literature thusly: "That which is produced on all levels of government, academics, business and industry in print and electronic formats, but which is not controlled by commercial publishers."
- OpenGrey
From Choice Reviews Online: "This open online index for the sciences, social sciences, and humanities allows researchers to discover papers, reports, and other resources. Institutions, think tanks, government agencies, and other gray literature producers..."
