Strategy: Use scholarly articles for details that shape your policy.
Scholarly articles can be primary or secondary. A primary research article is one where the authors are the people who did the research study. By contrast, a secondary article is where the author summarizes a research study done by someone else.
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Tool: OneSearch
Tips:
- Articles are very narrow. Use AND and OR to focus on a specific aspect of your big policy.
- plastics and recycling and markets
- Plastics and (consumption or reduction)
- plastic pollution
- Primary research is scholarly. Limit to Full text and Peer Reviewed to eliminate obvious non-scholarly material.
- Know how to skim accurately:
How to Read a Scholarly Article
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