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ANTH 316 Research Project Worksheet

Part 1: Topic Selection

You will need to figure out an ecological disasters your group is interested in researching.

Start by picking a country/region. Then investigate potential issues from there. Here are some websites with some examples on them. Make sure you are choosing a disaster that is currently happening (or no older than 2020).

List of Environmental Disasters on Wikipedia
List of Environmental Conflicts on Wikipedia
ReliefWeb Ongoing Disasters
One of the News databases listed below

When you have an idea you are comfortable with, record your ecological disaster, a link to a webpage about it, and your group member names to this Padlet: https://padlet.com/csparkman4/anth316

Part 2: News Sources

Access World News This link opens in a new window
Access World News is a comprehensive resource that includes a variety of news publications worldwide. These sources include major national and international newspapers, as well as local and regional titles as well as newswires, blogs, web-only content, videos, journals, magazines, transcripts and more. Access World News is updated daily. This database combines news articles from more than 13,000 sources and over 200 countries. Much of the material in non-English languages has been translated into English, but a significant amount of material is presented in the original language.
InfoTrac Newsstand This link opens in a new window
InfoTrac Newsstand provides access to full-text newspapers and allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section, or other fields. The database offers a one-stop source for current news and searchable archives.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.

Part 3: Databases for Literature Searching

Environment Complete This link opens in a new window
Covers agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine and freshwater science, geography, pollution and waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, and more.
GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
Contains citations and some full-text of articles on global warming, energy conservation, natural resources, and pollution. Includes scholarly journals and popular magazines, going back to around 1975.
Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new window
Anthropology Plus is the world's most comprehensive, focused index of bibliographic materials from the late 1800s to today in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology; ethnology, archaeology, folklore, and material culture; and interdisciplinary studies. Beyond these disciplines, researchers and scholars in art history, demography, economics, genetics, geography, geology, history, psychology, religion, or sociology will all find relevant anthropological material.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Contains more than 9 million full-text articles and 60 million citations and abstracts from 2,300 journals in the natural and social sciences, medicine, technology, and business.
MEDLINE with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.
PubMed Central This link opens in a new window
PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

BONUS: Government or Open Data & Reports

The final task for today is to try to locate 2 to 3 potential sources from government or open data websites to find facts, statistics, or reports that may support your research from reputable sources (it’s okay if you cannot find government sources).

Limit to a government websites in a Google search by search for your topic + site:gov. You can also add words like "reports" to find those sources more easily. For example, I might search for Hurricane Sandy and NYC site:gov reports, to find a report like this one. If you cannot find a .gov site, you could try .edu for education or .org to find an Nongovernmental Organization (NGO).

Here are some other websites that contain data about ecological disasters that may be useful to explore.