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ipl2 is the result of a merger of the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians' Internet Index (LII).

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Use NewsCred to Read all the world's breaking news from quality newspapers and blogs and thenPersonalize your newspaper by selecting your favorite sources for each category.

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Home base to find materials, lessson plans, and information about fact checking for educators.

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Opposing Views lets experts go “on the record” and state their position on a controversial issue.

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Investigative searching--digital information fluency model. Tools to evaluate the content you find online.

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“The aim of this website is to serve the research community by providing free access to original source documents and databases, as well as to provide a vehicle for the publication of original primary research by high school students.”

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Fair Spin publishes abbreviated news feeds from a variety of sources including CNN, Fox, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. Clicking on the title of a story will take you to the full story. After reading a story, you can vote on whether or the story contains a bias and if so, is the bias left or right leaning. Fair Spin displays aggregate votes on each story.

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Medpedia, a new online medical encyclopedia relying on user-generated content from anyone with an M.D. or a Ph.D. in a biomedical field, officially became available today. All content is available under the GFDL open license.Website for a "project to evolve a new model for sharing and advancing knowledge about health, medicine and the body among medical professionals and the general public." Features articles about health conditions and issues. All contributors are either physicians or have Ph.D.s in a health science. Provided in association with the Harvard Medical School; Stanford School of Medicine; University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health; University of Michigan Medical School; and others.

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Making Sense of Evidence, a resource from George Mason University’s “History Matters” course, gives students the tools they need to make sense of primary sources in history. Historians will help students examine everything from the meanings of words to historical context. They list questions to ask, and discuss the unique aspects of all manner of sources such as oral histories, letters and diaries, photos and newspapers.

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Enter the URL of a website and run it through the steps for evaluating its content and usefulness for research.

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Pros and Cons of Controversial Issues- Facts, news, and thousands of diverse pro and con opinions on controversial topics. Issues are listed alphabetical order or can be searched by level of education: Elementary and Middle School, High School, or Colleges and Universities. Also provides a rate of theoretical credibility to help determine if the information is credible or provided in a credible manner.

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Debatabase provides not only a database of topics but also provides debate rules and guidelines, teaching resources, and much more about debating. Each topic goes into further detail providing the following: introduction, context, arguments (pros and cons), motions, useful sites, useful books, themes, and a view of the full discussion.

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Reference Extract has the goal of building a web search engine where the weight of the search results aren't determined by any sort of algorithm like PageRank, but rather by the expertise and creditability judgments from librarians around the world. In other words, it's smart people-powered search

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UIUC Undergraduate Library's How Do I guides to the research process.

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International Topics and Issues from the US Deptartment of State.

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History Link 101 provides organized and annotated links related to different eras of world history.

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Indexes apologetics websites of varying quality. Using the index on the homepage, one can look for specific articles on various topics.

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This site focuses on four 21st century literacies - information, media, multicultural, and visual. It provides resources, both bibliographic and web-based, to assist you in your quest to learn and/or teach literacy skills.

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