CONS/SOCL 370: Environmental Justice

Welcome!  Get started on your research for your project.

Some helpful hints...

• Questions? Don't hesitate to email or schedule an in-office research consultation.
• Begin by familiarizing yourself with current and available information and generating keywords and phrases about your topic. Then, search for those keywords and phrases using:
  • The library catalog (for interdisciplinary information resources at W&M) or Worldcat (for national and some international resources available through ILL)
  • Google Scholar for interdisciplinary scholarly resources
  • Databases and other specialized resources in this guide
• Set up your research strategy and information management
• Research background information about your topic
• Do a preliminary literature search in major databases
• Discover web resources,"grey literature" (non-peer-reviewed scholarly and substantive info), government info, statistics, etc. 
• Gather or generate analysis of your own information
• Be sure to evaluate what you are finding!