What are credible sources?

Below is a list of websites to get you started.

• EuroDocs. The links connect to European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated.
• Google Cultural Institute.
• Internet History Sourcebooks Project.
• World Digital Library.

There are many factors that make a source credible. Whenever you are looking at a source on the internet, you should check several things to verify that the information is credible. These things include the source’s authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency, and coverage.

• Fact checking.
• Sources for different purposes.
• Dictionaries & encyclopedias.
• Books vs scholarly books.
• Types of journals. Peer-reviewed journals.
• News and media.

Finding the Most Credible News Sources Credible sources include peer-reviewed journals, government agencies, research think tanks, and professional organizations. Major newspapers and magazines also provide reliable information thanks to their high publishing standards.

Google is not an academic source, or indeed, a source at all. “Google” should never be cited as a source. Google Scholar is a branch of the Google search engine that strives to locate only scholarly sources, and bases the relevancy of an article on how often it was cited and who it was published by.

Google makes money based on what users click. While this is not an inherently bad thing, you need to know that Google doesn’t show you all sources of information available to you; only the most relevant ones, which helps Google and advertisers generate revenue. Unreliable sources. Anyone can publish anything online.

/ Why Google Isn’t Always Right Subscribe. Google can be wrong. Google spends its resources scouring the Web trying to predict what will be the most relevant content to show users for their 3.5 billion searches per day. Usually, Google’s guesses are accurate, but sometimes they’re not.

YouTube: YouTube and other video-sharing sites are generally not considered reliable sources because anyone can create or manipulate a video clip and upload without editorial oversight, just as with a self-published website. Videos may also be used as a convenience link for material originally published elsewhere.

They had a median reliability score of 4 (IQR: 4–5), median content score of 3 (IQR: 2–4) and a median GQS of 4 (IQR: 3–4).

Contrary to the time-consuming conventional way of preparing a census, researchers have said Facebook can be a reliable resource for the exercise and can provide real-time numbers in comparatively less time.

In unreliable sources, bias and offensive language can be seen because they are usually not written for the purpose of informing. If the source only evokes emotion in the reader (such as anger), it’s likely an unreliable source.

Wikipedia is not a reliable source for citations elsewhere on Wikipedia. Because it can be edited by anyone at any time, any information it contains at a particular time could be vandalism, a work in progress, or just plain wrong. Wikipedia generally uses reliable secondary sources, which vet data from primary sources.

There are several main criteria for determining whether a source is reliable or not.

• Accuracy. Verify the information you already know against the information found in the source.
• Authority. Make sure the source is written by a trustworthy author and/or institution.
• Currency.
• Coverage.