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Science Databases

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This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 8,500 journals, including nearly 7,300 peer-reviewed titles. Its coverage ranges back as far as 1887 for some titles.
American Chemical Society Web Editions and Journal Archives
offers full-text access to 30 ACS journals and their backfiles, with coverage extending from 1876 to the present.
Biological Abstracts
covers life science and biomedical research literature published from more than 4,300 journals internationally. Its coverage extends from 1992 to the present.
Google Scholar
This search engine searches for scholarly research across many disciplines and sources. By starting your Google search from the SPU pages, the results will link to SPU-owned full-text.
MEDLINE
MEDLINE covers all areas of healthcare, including medicine, dentistry, nursing, psychiatry, and nutrition.

Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers
This book describes an source evaluation method that is more like what news fact checkers use. This process may feel more natural and quicker than traditional library source evaluation tools, it also works partiuclarly well for evaluating social media, popular, and popular science sources.

1. Investigate the source
- "Check for previous work" Make use of existing fact checking sources like Snopes, FactCheck.org, etc. for news, or, for scholarly research, check for additional background information in encyclopedias, books, or journal articles.
- "Go upstream" find the original source by using references (or a google search) to link back to the primary source.
- "Read laterally" by searching for what other sources have to say about the same topic
- Circle back, using what you have learned, take a more informed path through the fact checking process
2. Trade up to more credible sources
- Circle back to a previous stage of the fact checking process
SIFT (The Four Moves) - Clark College guide
more detail than the above description on checking information like a fact-checker
Evaluating Sources Rhetorically & BEAM Model
another framework for evaluating sources & use of the BEAM Model for evaluating how a source might be used in your paper.
PARCA Test - York University (pdf)
framework for critically evaluating a resource.
CRAAP test - USC Chico (pdf)
framework for critically evaluating a resource

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