# Introduction to College Research

- By: Walter D. Butler, Aloha Sargent, and Kelsey Smith
- Publisher: Pasadena City College, Cabrillo College, and West Hills Community College
- Source: [LibreTexts](https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Research_and_Information_Literacy/Introduction_to_College_Research_(Butler_Sargent_and_Smith))
- Licence: [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
- Read at LibreTexts: https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Research_and_Information_Literacy/Introduction_to_College_Research_(Butler_Sargent_and_Smith)
- PDF: https://downloads.libretexts.org/api/v1/download/human-90180/pdf

This book acknowledges our changing information landscape, covering key concepts in information literacy to support a research process with intention. We start by critically examining the online environment many of us already engage with every day, looking at algorithms, the attention economy, information disorder and cynicism, information hygiene, and fact-checking.