Other Types of Sources

Of course, there are other types of sources besides scholarly and popular articles. Take a look at the guide linked to below, which comes from the Portland Community College Library. It compares sources like Twitter, Tumblr, YouTube, popular articles, and scholarly sources.

Know Your Sources: A Guide to Understanding Sources Links to an external site.

Information Timeline

It also helps to know the information timeline (or information cycle), which helps us know when and where we can find information about an event.

Information timeline chart: Social media published within minutes. News sites within days. Weekly magazines within weeks and monthly magazines within months. Scholarly journals 3 months or later. Books a year or more later.

"Information Timeline" by adstarkel is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0