Research thinktanks are organizations that employ scholars who conduct applied research to help inform policy decisions. Their reports can be regarded as scholarly since they employ scholarly methods, and the researchers themselves have academic credentials.
However, they often exhibit some degree of bias, based on the political orientation of the thinktank that employs them. See the boxes below to find the websites of thinktanks that are conservative, liberal, or centrist. Be mindful that reports from partisan organizations may not tell the whole story.
Carlyle Campbell Library
