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Scientific News Literacy

Resource guide that will help students in environmental science courses.

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Keep up to date in your field offers ways and technology tools to seek and organize your multiple news sources. And Tools to manage citations can help you find the information again when you need it and cite it according to specific writing format requirement. Avoid plagiarism discusses more practical tips.

Keep a Bibliographic Trail

  • Collect author, title, date, publication information, standard numbers, web addresses, call numbers
    • Be able to find the source again and allows others to find the resources as well.
    • Variety of tools available to assist creating a bibliographic tool.
  • EndNote
  • EndNoteWeb - Great if you primarily use Web of Science.
  • Zotero - Better for collecting Internet non-subscription sources.
  • Mendeley - Better for collecting Internet non-subscription sources.
  • For web resources, print them immediately, write the full web address down, and make note of how you found it. Web pages change constantly!

Keep up to date in your field

  • Monitor the web for content which you are interested through a general web alerting service

For example, Google Alerts
The service sends emails to you when it finds new results—such as web pages, newspaper articles, blogs, or scientific research—that match your search term(s).

  • Using RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a way of getting updated web content or 'feed' but only from web sites such as news sites that you've selected.

Step 1: Get a RSS Reader such as Feedly or Netvibes

More readers can be found at The Ultimate RSS Toolbox

Step 2: Get RSS feeds
Once you have an RSS Reader you can subscribe to receive the latest content from sites that interest you. Look out for the orange RSS icon and follow instructions to add the feed to your reader.