Information Creation as a Process
Browsing Topics
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EJ Atlas (Environmental Justice Atlas)The environmental justice atlas documents and catalogues social conflict around environmental issues.
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Global Issues (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new windowAn excellent resource for beginning to develop a topic, GIC organizes its content around specific topics. "Browse Issues and Topics" to access multimedia portal pages on some of the world's most important issues.
Tips for browsing topics in Global Issues and getting newspaper articles:
- Click on "Browse Issues"
- Select "Environment and Climate Change" in the drop-down menu next to "Topics:"
- Select a topic
- Select "News" in the grey menu bar
- Useful limiters include Document Type: Article, or you can use the "Search Within" button to find articles within the results you already have that contain a certain keyword
- All articles should be in full text & will show you in the list of articles how many words are in each
Relevant News Sources
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Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowProvides access to full-text news, business, and legal publications. Search over 15,000 sources for up-to-the-minute and archived national and international news, company information, and federal and state court cases since 1789.
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International Newsstream This link opens in a new windowInternational Newsstream provides the most recent news content from outside of the U.S. and Canada.
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US Newsstream This link opens in a new windowFull text of over 1300 newspapers, news websites and blogs from leading publishers throughout the world.
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Global Issues (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new windowAn excellent resource for beginning to develop a topic, GIC organizes its content around specific topics. "Browse Issues and Topics" to access multimedia portal pages on some of the world's most important issues.
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Newspaper MapWorld map of a variety of newspapers.
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ABYZ International News SourcesAggregation of international newspapers and news media sources. Links are broken down by region and country.
Useful Tools
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Google TranslateIf you find part of EJAtlas in another language, copy the text into Google Translate to get an idea of what it says.
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Google MapsPlace names may be different in English than in their native language. For example, what Americans call Munich, Germany is called München, Deutschland by the locals. Clicking on the place name in Google Maps will reveal the local name under the picture of the location.
