The following websites could be useful for preliminary research. They are not peer-reviewed which means other scholars from that same field have not read them before publication. As a result, they are not considered to be scholarly sources because they have not been officially vetted by other academicians. However, these websites can be useful in helping a student organize thoughts and many provide links to other scholarly works. A few offer brief podcasts.
Newspapers, Magazines, Journals...What's the Difference?
To see the main difference among these types of publications, open our Popular vs. Scholarly Materials matrix.