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UNO Libraries Research Guide

Use this guide to locate library resources from UNO Libraries.

Evaluating Sources

Evaluating sources in both your academic and personal lives is very practical skill. With practice, you can learn to critically evaluate every source and website you come across quickly and efficiently. The rubrics below will give you questions to think about when looking at sources. 

A couple things to watch out for: 

  • Biased language/general use of language
  • Websites you cannot get back to
  • No author or no information on an author
  • The other places the same news story appears

For practice on evaluating visit the Tutorials tab.

CRAAP Test & 5 W's

CRAAP/5W's bookmark
https://libguides.unomaha.edu/c.php?g=791101&p=5660643
libguides.unomaha.edu
crawl=CC-MAIN-2020-50
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application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:DH74FFE5V3IZ2MUZ4GJL2765BAWWXKHI
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2020-11-27T08:57:12Z
34.194.39.199
text/html
sha1:OJ3CY4JFW724LEKWGRPASJPS5KTAKSEL
<urn:uuid:7613dd1f-693b-4e9e-8ce3-89b5dc48e13c>
https://libguides.unomaha.edu/c.php?g=791101&p=5660643
response
<urn:uuid:de55d322-ea1d-4724-8638-4319ff3a0868>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-50
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for November/December 2020
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-27.ec2.internal
software: Apache Nutch 1.17 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/