Updates to: William Badke, Research Strategies: Finding your Way through the Information Fog, 7th ed. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse.com, 2021.
More updates coming
The Aspen Institute Commission on Information Disorder in November 2021 published a final report with helpful guidance on the nature of, and solutions to, information disorder.
The Dimensions Database in February 2021 reported that the number of new open access academic publications has surpassed new publications that are behind a paywall. https://www.dimensions.ai/blog/open-access-surpasses-subscription-publication-globally-for-the-first-time/?utm_source=pardot&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter21&utm_term=dimensions
The Internet Archive has a database to reveal millions of open access academic articles: https://scholar.archive.org/
The rise of generative artificial intelligence (ChatGPT, Bard, etc.) has created a lot of challenges for university professors assigning research assignments. See my take on this in the article: "AI Challenges to Information Literacy". Computers in Libraries (Online Searcher section) 43, no. 3 (April, 2023): 41-42.
The US Government Printing Office plans to make all US government documents open access (April 2021)
The World Digital Library is a free archive of texts, images, maps, and so on, from 8000 BCE to 2000 AD. https://www.wdl.org/en/Last updated May 15, 2023