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Ethics OER Resources: Evaluating Sources

Doing Ethics Alternative. For links not having a creative common license, you may link to them as part of "Fair Use", but do not download and upload to your blackboard content. For Creative Common licensed material, follow the licensing allowances.

Check For:

Relevant Content. Look for multiple sources and ranges of data.

Authoritative: Source that has hands-on first-person experience, and has a reputation to risk.

  • Not clickbait: Not littered with advertisements and glurge.
  • Check for reviews of source to check for red flags like "Hoax", "Scam", "Predatory",  "Retraction"

Current date 

Contact Us with working forms / email

About Us info explaining their reason for existence (bias). 

  • You can tell a lot about publisher bias from lists of members, sponsors, or advertisers.
  • Follow the money! Ask yourself who benefit$ from the call-to-action.
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