LibGuides: CHEM 6C: General Chemistry III (Brydges, Spring 2022): Finding Scholarly/Popular Sources

Starting with a Popular Source

Maybe you start with Chemistry World, C&EN Global Enterprise, or another popular resource that covers science news. These often highlight recent journal articles on topic being covered. You may find these articles helpful for your essay, or provide a launching point to find related articles.

You find this article in Chemistry World: Freefall flights test feasibility of making oxygen on the moon and Mars, about how gravity may impact hydrolysis of water to create oxygen on Mars and the moon. The lead researcher of a team who recently published work on this topic is interviewed, and at the end of the article is a link to the paper published in the journal Nature Communications: Predicting the efficiency of oxygen-evolving electrolysis on the Moon and Mars.
Or you come across this article in C&EN Global Enterprise: Mining lithium from seawater, which explores recent research efforts to harvest lithium from the oceans. The author quotes several researchers and cites recent articles in Joule (Lithium Extraction from Seawater through Pulsed Electrochemical Intercalation), Energy & Environmental Science (Continuous electrical pumping membrane process for seawater lithium mining), ACS Materials Letters (Ocean Mining: A Fluidic Electrochemical Route for Lithium Extraction from Seawater), and Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology (Pilot-scale demonstration of an electrochemical system for lithium recovery from the desalination concentrate).

Starting with a Scholarly Source

Maybe you started with a topic search in Web of Science and found an interesting article: Emergent constraint on Arctic Ocean acidification in the twenty-first century. You go to Nature to read the article and decide to use it. Now you want to find a popular source on your topic. There are several approaches you can take:

See if the journal provides any "metrics" for the article. Most publishers work with a company (Altmetric or Plum Analytics) to provide metrics on the attention that an article received. This includes social media like tweets, Wikipedia entries, and media coverage on the article. In the case of Altmetric, you may see a button with Altmetric and a number, or even a multicolored donut with a number, like this. The "donut" or button will take you to a page with details about the attention metrics, including media coverage. Some of these may be short news blurbs, but there's also a longer article from a Canadian environmental news site called The Narwhal (Arctic Ocean acidification could reach levels far greater than predicted if emissions stay high: study)
Use Academic Search Complete to find magazine and newspaper articles on Arctic Ocean acidification. Or Factiva.
Search Google News for news articles on arctic ocean acidification. If you want to limit further, you can include Nature in the search to find anything that references the original article.