Science Fiction Research

 

 

 

If you do not have a topic yet, you may want to look at some of the following sites for ideas. 

You will find that many of these sites have a built in search feature. If you know your topic, you may want to try searching these sites for your articles by using that feature:

 

BrightSurf- Current Science News                http://www.brightsurf.com/top_stories.php

CNET- Technology  News                             http://www.news.com/?tag=hd_ts

Discover Magazine                                         http:/www.discovermagazine.com/

MSNBC Science                                             http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3033055/

New Scientist Magazine                                 http://www.newscientist.com/home.ns

The New York Times Science News                http://www.nytimes.com/pages/science/

PhysOrg.com                                                   http://www.physorg.com/

Popular Science Magazine                             http://www.popsci.com/popsci/

Popular Mechanics Magazine                        http://www.popularmechanics.com/

Science (AAAS)                                              http://scienceonline.org

Science Daily                                                  http://www.sciencedaily.com/topics/

Science News Online                                      http://www.sciencenews.org/

Scientific American News                              http://www.sciam.com/

SciTech Daily Review                                    http://scitechdaily.com/index.htm#break

Spaceref.com                                                     http://www.spaceref.com/Directory/Future_Technology/

Yahoo News- Science                                    http://news.yahoo.com/i/753;_ylt=AhtEaliIwpH85xXsOgJGNlus0NUE

 

 

Try some of these magazine/newspaper databases (as well as the links above). When searching in the newspaper/magazine databases, be sure to set up the date range (published date) so that you are searching for articles no older than one year.

 

Discover Magazine Online

EBSCOhost (try the Student Research Center)

eLibrary

NewsBank

Science Online

 

 

Tips to remember before you begin researching: 

Use keyword searching. Keyword Searching is a way to search an index or database by searching for particular words in titles, names, subject headings, abstracts and any other information available in publication records. This kind of searching allows you to combine keywords by using the Boolean operators AND, OR and NOT. Keyword searching is more flexible than subject searching because it allows the searcher to select his or her own words or phrases for the search. Keyword searching is a more powerful way to search the databases.

 

To see the format for the Science Fiction (Modern) Research Paper, click here

To see the cover page template for this project, click here.

 

 

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