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Information source types
Importance of distinguishing between source types (even though distinctions artificial, overlapping, heuristic)
- Primary, secondary, tertiary (often used by academics cf. Princeton University library guide)
- Original, derivative, meta
Reliable, subjective/partial/biased, fake/misleading/misinformation
- Personal contacts, media gatekeepers, politicians etc are also important sources (cf. perspective sources).
cf. Local government transparency & information access rights.
Information sources
Exeter
- Exeter Chamber
- Exeter City Futures
- Exeter College
- Exeter Culture
- Exeter Data Mill
- Exeter Cycling Campaign
- Met Office
- University of Exeter
Exeter City Council
- News releases
- Elected members
- Meetings calendar
- Executive forward plan
- Planning services
- Accounts
- Budgets
- Data
- Publication scheme
Devon County Council
- News releases
- Elected members
- Meetings calendar
- Cabinet forward plan
- Accounts
- Budgets
- Info
- Publication scheme
South West
- Devon Climate Emergency Response Group
- Devon & Cornwall Police
- Devon & Cornwall Police & Crime Commissioner
- Devon & Plymouth Chamber of Commerce
- Devon & Somerset FIre & Rescue Service
- GW4
- Heart of the South West Local Enterprise Partnership
- Peninsula Transport
UK
- Parliament
- Legislation
- Government
- Government data inc. coronavirus data
- The Government Says
- Open Geography Portal
- DataShine Census
- They Work For You
- OS electoral boundary maps
- Politico Poll of Polls
- House of Commons library local data
- Office for Budget Responsibility
- Office for National Statistics
- Nomis labour market statistics
- Democracy Club
- Democratic Dashboard
- Democratic Audit
- Hansard Society Audit of Political Engagement
- Edelman Trust Barometer
- Britain Elects
- Electoral Commission past elections and referendums
- Companies House
- Charity Commission
- Financial Conduct Authority
Thinktanks, campaign orgs etc
- UK thinktanks
- Centre for Cities inc.data
- Electoral Reform Society
- Friends of the Earth
- Generation Rent
- Green Alliance
- Greenpeace
- Institute for Fiscal Studies
- Institute for Government
- Institute for Public Policy Research
- Intergenerational Foundation
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- King’s Fund
- Local Government Association
- Local Government Information Unit
- Localis
- New Local
- Nuffield Trust
- Oxfam
- Resolution Foundation
- ResPublica
- Royal Society of Arts
- Social Market Foundation
- Sutton Trust
- UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
- UK in a Changing Europe
Topic-specific e.g. transport
- Department for Transport
- DfT road traffic statistics map
- Big Bytes commute map
- CycleStreets Open Cycle Map
- UK government cycling and walking collection
- Cycling UK briefings
- Sustrans key statistics/research
- GB Cycling Embassy common fallacies
More guides
- News writing
- News brief
- What is news?
- Objectivity, neutrality, impartiality & balance
- Perspective sources
- Multimedia collateral & copyright
- Style
- Subediting
- Feature writing
- Research resources
- Data protection & media law
- Local government transparency & information access rights
- Exeter regional democracy & governance
- Exeter regional planning & place
- Exeter regional transport & mobility
- Digital information and communications security
Guides covering other Exeter regional policy and practice areas are also being prepared.
