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BIO 225 Course Guide: Resource Guide

Resources to support your background research on the course project

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Jeff Waller
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Background Info

Articles from these resources will give you a basic understanding of the issues, policies, and impacts related to your research topic.

Search the Library's OneSearch Tool

Use OneSearch to search our library's entire online and print collection. Everything that you find will be available to you.

In your results, you may wish to choose "Newspaper Article" or "Magazine Article" as your Content Type, or limit to recent years.

Science Magazines

Search these magazines for non-technical articles about scientific issues, studies, and findings.  You can limit by Year to narrow your results to recent articles.

Government and NGO Websites

Don't just Google it!  Government and non-profit organizations conduct good research on environmental issues.

To find sources by government agencies, add this to your Google search:

site:gov (and filetype:PDF for PDF reports)

To find sources by non-profit organizations, add this to your Google search:

site:org (and filetype:PDF for PDF reports)