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

Books & Educational Videos - Background Information on Topic or Region

URSUS

Search the library catalog for materials on your topic (books, ebooks, videos, government documents). Many book records in URSUS include the table of contents, which can give you a sense of a book and help you decide if it would be useful for your research. Not sure where to locate an item in the library? There are maps on all floors of the library and at the reference desk.

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.

Hacking Google for information - Creative Ways to Navigate Google for Background Information

There are many ways to hack Google, in order to conduct more complex searches and focus your results. In the above example:

intitle: refers to any terms you want to ensure are in the title of the web page itself (in this case, that would be "climate change")
the quotation marks around climate change hold those words together so that Google searches for that exact phrase (rather than a search that returns the word climate or the word change)
~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
The minus sign in front of Alaska tells the search to exclude Alaska-related terms from your results
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.

Country Profiles & Statistics (Background Information on your Topic/Region)

Business Premium Collection
Can select country reports.
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.

Multimedia Resources (Background Information and Stakeholders)

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

Search for Podcasts
Search the entire Internet's podcasts (or, so they say).
Strategically Search YouTube
Search, for example, (TEK OR "traditional ecological knowledge" OR "Indigenous Knowledge") AND "Fisheries Management" for related videos and clips.

Research Articles - Case Studies as Models for Your Conservation Method(s)

Use the Fogler database menu to identify online databases where you might find research that addresses your topic. Several databases that will be a good place to start are:

Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection
Access to articles from several indexes: Agricultural & environmental biotechnology abstracts (1993-present); AFSA Aquatic pollution & environmental quality (1990-present); Ecology abstracts (1982-present); EIS Digests of environmental impact statements (1985-present); Environmental engineering abstracts (1990-present); Health & safety sciences abstracts (1981-present); Industrial & applied microbiology abstracts (Microbiology A) (1982-present); Bacteriology abstracts (Microbiology B) (1982-present); Pollution abstracts (1981-present); Risk abstracts (1990-present); Toxicology abstracts (1981-present); Water resources abstracts (1967-present).
Environment Complete
Contains full text for more than 400 journals, including many of the most-used journals in the discipline, such as Environment (back to 1975), Ecologist, Conservation Biology, etc.
GreenFile
Topics include the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and governments and what can be done at each level to minimize negative impacts. GreenFile provides thousands of open access full-text records from scholarly, government and general interest sources.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Articles from approximately 8,500 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world.

Additional Interdisciplinary Search Options

Cast a wide net by searching OneSearch to see what may be available in Fogler Library's holdings. It is not a comprehensive search (like any database or search engine, it has its limitations), but it is a wide-ranging search option.

Set up Library Links to access full text articles in your Google Scholar search results (and avoid paywalls!).

Find Statistics and Infographics

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

For example:

ANT 250: Conservation Anthropology: Researching your Conservation Topic

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