Another source of free articles is from public libraries. A recent search on 'climate change' returned over 300000 articles. All are full text, peer reviewed journals, reviews and reports. Of course you can narrow down the returns using keywords from your topic. You can also search by journal name. You just need to join a library where you live, and get a library card number.
Thanks Melanie for all the work that you do and you sharing all the links on how to investigate misinformation and disinformation. Years ago I used to be a social studies teacher. Social values exploration is a strand of social studies and we would spend a lot of time distinguishing between facts and opinions, particularly my own words if I did on occasion share my opinion with the class rather than simply facts. It used to said that history was written by the victors. Nowadays, it seems that anyone can write anything and we have such things as rabbit holes to fall down on the internet. Your work in this area is absolutely vital and ought to be incorporated in schools. I have been a candidate in the New Zealand elections for a political party in 2023 and 2011. One of the biggest problems was lack of information by the voters and a disbelief of the facts.
Lastly, I had to chuckle at the irony at one of your commenters concerned about the quality of the evidence of your sources or research, when your entire article is precisely on this point!!
Nice summary on ways to get access to articles. Even within research institutions, the access we have is incredibly heterogeneous.
I'd just like to add that the number of publications someone has is not a particularly useful indicator of doing "good" science - it says more about their funding and perhaps job stability and institutional functioning, than anything else these days.
The problem with researchgate is they’ve taken down a lot of the free versions we posted as the publishers started threatening legal action. I still post all mine on my website hoping I won’t get found out. Most of the time this kind of archiving is ok but not all.
Another source of free articles is from public libraries. A recent search on 'climate change' returned over 300000 articles. All are full text, peer reviewed journals, reviews and reports. Of course you can narrow down the returns using keywords from your topic. You can also search by journal name. You just need to join a library where you live, and get a library card number.
So ad hominem is a legitimate academic excercise these days?
The first thing that you should look for is ‘is the evidence stacking up for this’.
Who’s taking your climate disinformation course by the way? Someone from the Arts maybe?
Thanks Melanie for all the work that you do and you sharing all the links on how to investigate misinformation and disinformation. Years ago I used to be a social studies teacher. Social values exploration is a strand of social studies and we would spend a lot of time distinguishing between facts and opinions, particularly my own words if I did on occasion share my opinion with the class rather than simply facts. It used to said that history was written by the victors. Nowadays, it seems that anyone can write anything and we have such things as rabbit holes to fall down on the internet. Your work in this area is absolutely vital and ought to be incorporated in schools. I have been a candidate in the New Zealand elections for a political party in 2023 and 2011. One of the biggest problems was lack of information by the voters and a disbelief of the facts.
Lastly, I had to chuckle at the irony at one of your commenters concerned about the quality of the evidence of your sources or research, when your entire article is precisely on this point!!
Nice summary on ways to get access to articles. Even within research institutions, the access we have is incredibly heterogeneous.
I'd just like to add that the number of publications someone has is not a particularly useful indicator of doing "good" science - it says more about their funding and perhaps job stability and institutional functioning, than anything else these days.
The problem with researchgate is they’ve taken down a lot of the free versions we posted as the publishers started threatening legal action. I still post all mine on my website hoping I won’t get found out. Most of the time this kind of archiving is ok but not all.