Sometimes websites can provide excellent resources to support your ideas. Make sure you are checking the credibility of the internet source by checking with your instructor, a librarian, or by using tools for evaluating sources.
The following are a few reliable internet sources to try:
- Allsides - Balanced news/ media bias
- Brookings Institution - Non-profit Public Policy. Researches societal issues.
- Data.gov - Open data from the U.S. Government
- Futurity - Research news from top universities
- OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) - Provides evidence-based international data on a range of global issues
- Pew Research - Nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world.
- Snopes.com - Fact checking site
- World Factbook from the CIA - Provides information on the history, people and society, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
