Finding Popular Articles
Here are some good places to look for newspaper and magazine articles about topics related to earth science:
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New York Times Digital EditionYou can read the New York Times for free online after creating an account with your @dupage.edu email. See the link above for instructions, and then try browsing the Science section, or searching the newspaper for your topic.
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Google NewsGoogle News will provide newspaper articles, magazine articles, and news videos on a variety of topics. You will not be able to read all articles for free. Keep searching until you find one.
If you're not finding much of interest, try to be as specific as possible with your topic. For example, "coral bleaching Great Barrier Reef" will provide more specific and focused articles than "climate change" (which is a related but much broader subject).
Finding Scholarly Articles
Once you have your popular article, try the following places to find scholarly articles:
Be sure to search using terms found in your popular article.
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Science DirectScience Direct provides full-text scholarly research articles in a number of scientific subjects, including the Earth Sciences.
Having a hard time reading your scientific articles? Try looking in Gale or Credo (below) to find words that you don't understand.
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Gale eBooksGale is a collection of online reference articles which includes a number of scientific encyclopedias and dictionaries.
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Credo ReferenceCredo contains a number of online dictionaries and encyclopedias.
You can also look at the following two guides to help understand your article:
Cite
Google Scholar can create citations for articles. Click the quotation marks below the article information after doing a search.
Need some help putting together citations? Check out the helpful links below:
- COD Library's guide to APA citations. Make sure to use the menu to the right to find examples of what you need.
- Purdue OWL's guide to APA citations and paper format
Want a database to create citations for you? Check out the link below:
