Information for your water work can be found in many places. Librarians can help you find information both in print and online at your school, public, local community college, and/or college or university libraries. Some resources in those libraries are limited to students or residents of specific communities.
Access to the search engines and databases below varies: Search It will work only while you are at Kansas State University while the EBSCO (EBSCO is a database vendor) databases - GreenFILE, Agricola, Academic Search Premier, and Newspaper Source Plus - should work anywhere in the state of Kansas. Other databases are available at the National Agriculture Library.
Note: as you select sources for your research it is important to evaluate them. Check out our Library Basics guide for resources for evaluating sources.
The Internet is an uncontrolled, unorganized mish-mash of excellent scholarship and incoherent musings, but some simple tips can help you focus in on the good stuff!
Try these strategies in Google:
More tips on searching from Google: Refine and Filter.
Type in the search box and/or click the Search button to open this Google search in a new tab.
Google Scholar is just like Google, but the results are more academic. They are still a little wild (not always scholarly and sometimes from questionable or biased sources) so you should be evaluating articles you find here. You can find research related to an article in Google Scholar by looking at an article's references (past) and where it was cited (future).
Type in the search box and/or click the Search button to open this Google search in a new tab.
If you are on a Kansas State University campus, you will have access to research resources and databases. Search It contains information about millions of articles books, ebooks, videos, cds, government documents, maps, dissertations, and other items at K-State Libraries.
With Advanced Search you can search for multiple terms in specific locations (fields) on a record. In this example we are searching for the exact term "water rights" in the title field and kansas in the subject field. This search is also limited in the publication date field to last 5 years. This advanced search returned 8 records.
Click here for the results of this advanced search in Search It
EBSCO is a research service with many databases. Access to some EBSCO databases is available through the Kansas State Library. These are best bets for water advocacy research: