Library Catalog
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Coates Library Resources About Misinformation
A Field Guide to Lies by ISBN: 9780525955221
The Misinformation Age by ISBN: 9780300241006
Fake News and Alternative Facts by ISBN: 9780838917503
Bad Advice by ISBN: 9780231546935
Social Media and the Public Interest by ISBN: 9780231545549
Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories by ISBN: 9781476643212
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Provides articles from periodicals on subjects such as classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, search engines, printed and electronic information sources.
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Provides access to a comprehensive list of journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
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This resource offers worldwide full-text content pertaining to communication, linguistics, rhetoric and discourse, speech-language pathology, media studies and related fields and includes many unique sources previously not available.
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Multidisciplinary, scholarly, full text journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
Websites
- FactCheckFactCheck is a website created and maintained by the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
- SnopesSnopes is a website founded in 1994 by David Mikkelson to originally investigate hoaxes and folklore. With the continued development of the Internet, it expanded to become a fact-checking website. It is owned by Snopes Media Group.
- PolitifactThe newspaper Tampa Bay Times launched PolitiFact in 2007 but ownership was transferred to the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in 2018. The website focuses on checking the accuracy of political statements and present the truth.
- Washington Post Fact CheckerThe Washington Post's Fact Checker is operated by Glenn Kessler and assesses accuracy with the Pinocchio test.
- Google Fact Check ToolGoogle's fact checking tool enables a user to search fact check websites for fact checks.