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First Year Seminars: FYS 109 Climate Change Solutions

Finding News Stories

Google

Google can help you find all kinds of news content. Besides adding the name of a specific publication to the search, along with your keywords, you can also select the News option to limit that way.

Google search bar with News option highlighted

 

Access Specific News Sources Using Musselman Library

Any of the links below will take you to pages with online access to some of the subscription-based news sources mentioned in your assignment description:

 

Search for Another News Source Using Musselman Library

To see if the library has access to specific news articles that may be locked behind a paywall otherwise, use the MUSCAT Plus Find a Journal tool and type the name of any publication you want to check.

Finding Reports

Google Site Searching

Once you've identified an organization, government agency, or think tank that sounds relevant to you, a Google site search can help you browse those sites more efficiently.

The syntax for a Google site search looks like this: site:URL/domain keywords

Examples:

  • site:.edu heat-resistant crops — will only return pages from institutions of higher education with information about heat-resistant crops
  • site:maricopa.gov cooling centers report — will only return pages from the Maricopa County, AZ government about cooling centers

 

Browse Think Tank Sites

If you Google around, you can identify think tanks or advocacy groups actively doing work related to your adaptation. This means there's also a chance you could find some analysis or a report.

Musselman Library's Public Policy research guide has some lists of different think tanks if you'd like to start exploring with those. In addition to the General Coverage list, you might have some success with the Environment section.

Finding Peer-Reviewed Articles

What is Peer Review?

 

Finding Peer-Reviewed Articles