SIFT is a series of actions you can take to determine the validity and reliability of claims and sources on the web.
The SIFT method, or strategy, is quick and simple and can be applied to various kinds of online content: news articles, scholarly articles, social media posts, videos, images, etc.
Each letter in SIFT corresponds to one of the Four Moves:
Stop
Investigate the source
Find better coverage
Trace claims, quotes and media to the original context
Find more details on the Four Moves from Mike Caulfield's SIFT (Four Moves), which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Always remember that you can search either by using keywords (words that you consider to be the best representation of what you are looking for) or subject headings (terms that are part of the catalog's controlled vocabulary). While we can always come up with new keywords depending on our own preference, we have to search for the right subject headings in the catalog's index.
Watch the following tutorial on using the library catalog to find books in the Otterbein collection or through OhioLink: http://screencast.com/t/NzJlNDk1YmY
If you are having a hard time getting started, or run into a road block with your topic get direct help! Schedule a Research Consultation with your subject librarian to get one-on-one assistance.
Authority Is Constructed and Contextual
Information Creation as a Process
Information Has Value
Research as Inquiry
Scholarship as Conversation
Searching as Strategic Exploration