Research Guides: Applied Life Sciences: Overview

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Welcome! This guide will get you started with library-based research in Applied Life Sciences.

To search for books or articles use Library Search on the library website.

The Claremont Colleges Library use the Library of Congress Classification System to organize physical books in the library. Our science section can be found on the first (1st) floor of the Honnold side of the building. Below, you will find a list of subjects and the call number grouping in which they may be found.

LC Subclasses for Applied Life Sciences

Chemistry: call numbers beginning with QC
Physics: call numbers beginning with QD
Human anatomy: call numbers beginning with QM
Physiology: call numbers beginning with QP
Microbiology: call numbers beginning with QR

How to Evaluate Your Sources

How to Spot a Misleading Graph

TED-Ed. “How to Spot a Misleading Graph - Lea Gaslowitz.” YouTube, YouTube, 6 July 2017, www.youtube.com/watch?v=E91bGT9BjYk.

Fact Checking Websites

AllSides
AllSides automatically delivers multiple perspectives on any topic to reveal bias, engage users, and connect people for civil conversations. We provide (and often customize) our patented and proprietary technology, platforms, services and content to media companies, schools, research institutions, nonprofits and more.
FactCheck.org
A nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. Its goal is to monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases and apply best practices of both journalism and scholarship, and to increase public knowledge and understanding. FactCheck.org is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. The APPC was established by publisher and philanthropist Walter Annenberg to create a community of scholars within the University of Pennsylvania that would address public policy issues at the local, state and federal levels.
OpenSecrets
Nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit, the Center for Responsive Politics is the nation's premier research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy. Their vision is to facilitate access to clear and unbiased information about money’s role in politics and policy and to use that knowledge to strengthen our democracy.
PolitiFact
PolitiFact started in 2007 as an election-year project of the Tampa Bay Times (then named the St. Petersburg Times), Florida’s largest daily newspaper. It focuses on looking at specific statements made by politicians and rating them for accuracy and is run by the editors and journalists who make up the PolitiFact team.
Snopes
Snopes got its start in 1994, investigating urban legends, hoaxes, and folklore. Founder David Mikkelson, later joined by his wife, was publishing online before most people were connected to the internet. As demand for reliable fact checks grew, so did Snopes. Now it’s the oldest and largest fact-checking site online, widely regarded by journalists, folklorists, and readers as an invaluable research companion. Snopes.com is an independent publication owned by Snopes Media Group.