This page contains reliable, trustworthy resources you can access on or off the Taft campus to help you find information about the topic you are researching.
Online Databases for Current Issues Research
NOTE: You may use any images in these databases freely.
Coverage of today's most important issues with key facts, arguments, history, primary sources, news and editorial content, and media. NOTE:All News content comes from Reuters (see right). Citations can be copied and pasted into your article and Works Cited page.
SIRS Issues Researcher delivers diverse perspectives on today’s complex social issues with relevant, credible information from more than 2000 international sources.. NOTE: Citations can be copied and pasted into your article and Works Cited page.
Access thousands of magazines and journals in all disciplines. Refine your results further by using the limiters in the left sidebar of your search results page. NOTE: Citations can be copied and pasted into your article and Works Cited page.
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To allow your reader to track down the sources you used by citing them accurately in your paper by way of footnotes, a bibliography or reference list.
Your Citations
Most of our Online Databases provide MLA citations you can copy and paste into your bibliography if your teacher says you may do so..
You can also use Bibme, Bibguru, EasyBib, or any other electronic citation generator you may be familiar with to create your MLA citations.
Create a bibliography document for your project using your Taft Google Docs, and add sources by copying and pasting new citations.
Allsides.com exposes people to information and ideas from all sides of the political spectrum so they can better understand the world — and each other. The AllSides Media Bias Chart™ helps you to easily identify different perspectives and political leanings in online news content so you can get the full picture and think for yourself.
Sweetsearch returns only credible websites approved by research experts. You can limit to news results by clicking on News and history results by clicking on History. Note: Disregard advertisements that may appear at the top of your result list.
AllSides empowers you to understand the role media bias plays in the news and information you consume. The AllSides Media Bias Ratings™ and AllSides Media Bias Chart™ help make news bias transparent, allowing you to identify different perspectives and political leanings so you can get the full picture and think for yourself.
An independent website that rates the bias, factual accuracy, and credibility of media sources...MBFC is trusted by major media outlets and IFCN (International Fact-Checking Network) fact-checkers, frequently being referenced by sources such as USA Today, Reuters Fact Check, Science Feedback, Washington Post, and NPR.
When misinformation obscures the truth and readers don’t know what to trust, Snopes’ fact-checking and original, investigative reporting lights the way to evidence-based and contextualized analysis. We always document our sources so readers are empowered to do independent research and make up their own minds.
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