This is issue no. 13-006 of Research Brief, a research series published by the National Institute of Education (NIE). This series conveys NIE's research findings on education, providing a description of key findings and possible implications for policy and practice in Singapore. This issue contains the research findings of Mark Baildon, James Damico, Suhaimi Afandi and Agnes Paculdar with regards to the usage of online information sources in Singapore's Social Studies curriculum, looking at how students gather and use online information, as well as how teachers can guide students to work with online information sources.