This week’s tech tip was about reliable, online databases. Often, teachers tell us, “Don’t use Wikipedia for research, it’s not reliable” and sometimes… they can be very, very right. So, what should you use instead? Try Jurn.org. Jurn is a website that indexes and catalogs articles from over three thousand scholarly journals, so it should be fairly easy to find accurate information for your topic, research paper, or what have you. Google Scholar does basically the same thing, and you can find it at scholar.google.com. Both Jurn and Google Scholar are sort of like free versions of the databases that our wonderful librarians provide for us. Give them a try, or keep them in mind for when research paper time comes!

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