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RESEARCH & FACT CHECKING

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The CRAAP test was created by Sarah Blakeslee and the librarians at California State University's Meriam Library in 2004.

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Sites for checking the accuracy of informational

sources:

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Trustworthy News Sources:

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Articles on sorting fact from fiction:

Books which address the issue of misinformation:

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Epistemology: The search for truth through philosophy

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Disinformation on Climate Change:

 

 


 

International Statistics

  • Eurostat

  • Facts on International Relations and Security Trends (FIRST)

    • integrated database containing information from research institutes around the world. Coverage includes data on armed conflicts and peace keeping, arms production and trade, military expenditure, armed forces and conventional weapons holding, nuclear weapons, chronology, statistics and other reference data.

  • Gapminder

    • a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. The site includes moving graphics that display development trends by the countries, time periods, and indicators you choose.

  • GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION OF POVERTY

    • The Global Poverty Mapping Project has downloadable poverty data sets and maps. The Poverty Mapping Project is sponsored by CIESIN (The Center for International Earth Science Information Network) at the Earth Institute, Columbia University.

  • Human Development Reports (UN)

    • global development indicators published by the United Nations Development Progamme

  • International Data Base (IDB)

  • NationMaster

    • designed by a web publishing company in Australia, this site gathers statistics from a variety of sources, mostly international agencies, and presents them in an easy-to-use and interesting graphical formats. Links to ads are present but are generally unobtrusive.

  • OECD Factbook

    • "...comprehensive statistical annual showing a wide range of key statistics for its member countries and major additional countries."

  • World Bank - Countries

    • Browse data by country

  • Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI)

    • reports aggregate and individual governance indicators for 212 countries and territories over the period 1996–2007, for six dimensions of governance: Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law , and Control of Corruption.

  • Google Public Data Explorer

    • "...makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate."

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Public Opinion Polls

Source: Hope College Lib Guides

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US Statistics 

  • American Factfinder

  • Bureau of the Census

    • official site to the Bureau with numerous links to contemporary, recent and projected census and demographic data.

  • Statistical Abstract of the United States

    • published since 1878, this is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Also serves as a guide to sources of more information both in print and on the Web. Stopped in 2011, so a better source for older data.

  • FedStats

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Who owns this internet domain? Who hosts it?

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  • WhoIs

  • HostCabi

    • TIP: WhoIs can give you the company name, email, physical address and phone number associated with a website (although results do vary). You’ll also see when the domain was last registered. If it was very recently, that could be a sign of a hoax. (Note that you want https://who.is, not the similarly named whois.com or whois.net.)

    • HostCabi allows you to enter a domain to find out where a website is hosted.

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