Subject Guides: ANT 250: Conservation Anthropology: Researching Your Conservation Topic

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For today's exercise, please click on Study: Land conservation good for New England economies.

Where to Find News Coverage (Background Information and Stakeholders)

Ethnic NewsWatch
Includes current, full-text newspapers from ethnic and minority presses, as well as historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.
Global Newsstream This link opens in a new window
More than 2200 U.S. and international papers. Look for background information and a variety of perspectives on current topics.
Maine News
Index to and full text coverage of five Maine newspapers: Bangor Daily News, 7/1/1993-present; Kennebec Journal (Augusta), 8/21/2005-present); Portland Press Herald, 9/30/1995-present; Sun Journal (Lewiston), 1/26/2006-present; Morning Sentinel (Waterville), 8/21/2005-present. Selected business coverage of the Maine Times (2/4/94-4/25/02) is also included. There is selective coverage of some earlier years, and some gaps in the coverage listed above, for these titles. Updated daily.
Nexis Uni
National and international newspaper articles.

Where to Find Country Profiles and Statistics (Background Information on your Topic/Region)

OECD iLibrary
Data and analysis from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, including country indicators (agriculture, health care, demography, energy, etc.).
World Bank: Countries and Regions
World Bank's gateway to publications and statistics on different countries.
The World Factbook
Country information from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

Where to Find Multimedia Resources (Background Information and Stakeholders)

Academic Video Online
A wide range of educational videos and documentaries.

Where to Find Research Articles (Case Studies as Models for Your Conservation Method(s))

Agricultural and Environmental Science

Environment Complete
GreenFile
Web of Science This link opens in a new window

Where to Find Statistics and Infographics

Statista
Statistics and survey results, visualized in charts and tables.

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Creative Ways to Navigate Google for Background Information

There are many ways to use Google to conduct more complex searches and focus your results. For example:

intitle: refers to any terms you want to ensure are in the title of the web page itself
Quotation marks around a phrase (like "climate change") hold those words together so that Google searches for that exact phrase
~coast tells the search that you want terms related to the word right after the tilde (~); for coast, this might include terms like coastal, coastline, waterfront, shoreline, and seaside
A minus sign in front of a word tells the search to exclude terms related to that word
site:.gov tells Google that you only want results from government websites; you can also use specific sites after site:, such as site:bangordailynews.com or site:maine.edu
The date limiter can be found in the Tools section of your Google search (the Tools section is linked directly below and to the right of the search bar)

For your ANT 250 projects, you may want to search Google using site:.gov to locate government information on your topics, such as climate change or ecotourism or waste management.