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- Encyclopedia Britannica
A good place to start your research - General OneFile
Find full-text news and magazine articles - Academic OneFile
Find peer-reviewed, full-text articles from leading academic journals - Gale Virtual Reference Library — free access with a Jones Library card
Find digital encyclopedias and reference books - Historical New York Times (1851 - 2015) — free access with a Jones Library card
Full-text and PDF images of the complete newspaper - Local Newspapers from NewsBank — free access with a Jones Library card
Find full-text articles from local and regional newspapers - Research Companion
Get help to more effectively find, evaluate, and use information - See also: the Boston Public Library's research tools — free access with a BPL eCard
- See also: the UMass Amherst libraries' research tools — free access inside UMass libraries
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- Finding Articles
A guide to finding magazine, journal, & newspaper articles using library research tools and the open web — including instructions for requesting articles you can't find
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Recommended Websites
- Google Scholar
Search scholarly literature – as well as patents & legal documents – across the open web - Internet Archive
Non-profit library of free books, media & software – also includes web pages saved over time - Wolfram Alpha
This "computational knowledge engine" answers natural-language questions on many topics
Fact-Checking Websites
- FactCheck.org
Nonpartisan political fact-checking project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at UPenn - PolitiFact
Nonpartisan political fact-checking website run by the Poynter Institute (school of journalism) - ProPublica
Nonprofit, independent newsroom conducting investigative journalism in the public interest - Snopes.com
Independent fact-checking website known for debunking internet hoaxes since 1994
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