Hi and welcome to the video on how to
find a popular magazine website or
newspaper article that reports the
findings of a scientific research
article.  Let's start with the definition.
What is a popular article? A popular
article is typically written by a
journalist or writer for hire and is
intended to inform a general audience.
Popular articles are different from
scholarly articles in a few key ways,
such as the credentials of the author,
where it is published, and why the
article exists. Oftentimes a popular
article will attempt to translate a
scientific article so that the general
audience, and not just subject experts,
can easily understand the findings. And
while scholarly articles always provide
a list of citations at the end, popular
articles aren't always great at
providing pathways to their sources. You
can find popular articles in many places
on the web and in print.
Specifically you can find them in
newspapers, such as the New York Times,
and our local newspaper, The Oregonian.
Typically there's a science or a health
section, so try to find those sections
first. You can also use a web magazine
such as Environmental News Network, Wired,
National Geographic, and Scientific
American. Just use Google to locate those web pages, and either browse through
their issues, or you can even do a search
within that webpage. You can also explore
radio websites, such as NPR Science
Friday. At the end of this video I'm
going to give you an additional tip on
how to choose a viable article from one
of these sources. I'm going to use for
my example, The New York Times science
section to find my popular article.  If
you've used a New York Times website to
access their content then you probably
already know that it limits you to click
and read only five articles per month so,
browse wisely. I ran out of my five
articles just at the moment when I
thought I found an interesting one. And
because PSU library subscribes to the
New York Times, I can find and access the
full text of the article through the
library's website. Here's how I did it.
First, I'll navigate to the website
library dot PDX dot edu,
and then I'll navigate down to the
databases and articles link. And then I'll
use the A to Z menu near the top to find
the New York Times under the letter n.  So
once I'm in The New York Times, I'll
enter the title of my article into the
search box,
and I'm going to cross many fingers and
hope it pops right up. So you may need to
add in some additional information to
your search, maybe an author's last name
or a keyword, to help you narrow down
your results. Oh great I'm so lucky
here's my article. And I know I'm going
to need a citation for my popular
article, so I'm gonna go ahead and
collect the details for that citation
right now, and that just makes it nice
and easy for me I don't have to go back
later and try to find all these details.
If you're using a library database like
I am they will have a citation feature
within it, that you can use to grab that
citation information. But if you're using
a website you will have to collect this
information on your own. You'll be
looking for the title. the author. The
source it was published, in in my case
that would be the New York Times. A
volume and issue number, if it's
available. So sometimes on websites
that's not something that you'll find
there. The date the information was
published. The pages, again if it's
available, and where you found it. So for
a website, that would be the URL of the
website itself. Finally, I'd like to share
one last tip for choosing a popular
article, and that is to be mindful of
articles reporting on current events. In
this research timeline notice that it
can take months, yes months, for
researchers to collect, analyze, and
publish a scholarly article. Even then
there is typically a lag time between
when these articles are published in
print and when they are available in
library databases. Please take this into
consideration when you're choosing your
popular articles. Has enough time passed
for the scientific research to be
published?
