User s Guide: Global Geoscience Watch

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1 Detailed Contents User s Guide: Global Geoscience Watch Overview...2 About Global Geoscience Watch...2 About GREENR...2 What are Portals?...2 Issues Portal...3 Organization Portal...3 Country Portal...3 How to Access Global Geoscience Watch and GREENR...4 Accessing GREENR from Global Geoscience Watch...4 About the Global Geoscience Watch Portals...5 A Sample Portal...5 Retrieving the Content...6 Overview Essay...6 Other Text-Based Content...6 Multimedia Content...7 Portal Tools...7 Marking Items...7 Navigating Back to the Global Geoscience Watch Portal...8 How to Browse...9 The Home Page...9 Getting Help...10 Browse Issues/Topics...10 Selecting an Issue/Topic...10 Browse Countries...11 Using the World Map...11 A Sample Country Portal...13 Searching the World Map...14 How to Search...15 Basic Search...15 Advanced Search...15 The Standard Search Results Page...17 Document View...18 A Sample Document...18 The TOOLS Box on the Document View...19 Marking and Saving a Document...19 The TOOLBOX Menu...20 How to Cite...20

2 2 User's Guide: Global Geoscience Watch Overview About Global Geoscience Watch Global Geoscience Watch is your gateway into GREENR, Gale s database for the Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources. On the Global Geoscience Watch home page you can access GREENR, visit a related book page, view the ebook version of this guide, and more. GREENR is interactive and current, allowing users to navigate issue, country, organization, and Global Geoscience Watch-specific portals. It s your one-stop site for studying earth and the environment. About GREENR You may also access GREENR directly through your Digital Dashboard, as described on page 4. Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources (GREENR) offers news, authoritative reference content, video, unique commentaries, primary source documents and statistics concerning current global earth and environmental issues. From climate change, to globalization, to natural disasters, to the growth of green collar jobs, GREENR brings you a wealth of content through a highly accessible, visually appealing, userfriendly interface. What are Portals? The GREENR database features Portals, a special kind of search results page designed to resemble the open web. The Portals bring together up to sixteen different kinds of content sources, hand-selected by an academic advisory board to support research in current contexts on an issue/topic, an organization or a country. For each Portal, you'll find an Overview of the topic, along with statistical data, periodical and reference articles, primary source documents and multimedia content that together provide information essential to understanding the issue, organization or country. The Overviews are periodically re-written or updated, to reflect ongoing changes related to the issue, organization or country. Where available, you may find website listings and ways to get involved. Portals also offer relevant case studies, directory entries profiling related

3 User's Guide: Global Geoscience Watch 3 organizations and libraries, conference presentations and book reviews. The Portals are interconnected, so that you can easily link to related Portals. The resources you can access from a Portal change over time as updates are made to cover evolving political, economic and social events and scientific advances. In addition, new Portals are continually added. There are three types of Portals: Issues Portals, Organization Portals and Country Portals. Issues Portal Issues Portals focus on events, topics and problems of global importance facing the 21st century in the following ten categories: Agriculture and Food Systems; Energy; Humans in the Natural World; Pollution; Science and Technology; Economics and Trade; Environment and Ecology; Law and Politics; Resource Management; and Social Factors. In addition, there are four Global Geoscience Watch Portals, each based on a course area: Geography, Geology, Meteorology, and Oceanography. These course areas contain links to related Issues Portals that are most relevant to the course. A sample Global Geoscience Watch Portal is shown on page 5. Organization Portal Organization Portals are similar to Issues Portals but instead profile an association or organization. In addition to the Overview, Statistics, News and other content, Organization Portals also include Quick Facts about the organization in the right-hand sidebar, such as full contact information, year founded, membership total, budget and other information. Organizations profiled include the European Union (EU), Greenpeace, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and others. Country Portal Learn the basic facts about a country, as well as the environmental issues, events and challenges affecting it. In addition to the Overview, Statistics, News and other content, Country Portals also include Quick Facts about the country in the right-hand sidebar, such as an image of the country s flag and data on its size, population, type of government, and other information, along with links for more details.

4 4 User's Guide: Global Geoscience Watch How to Access Global Geoscience Watch and GREENR 1. Go to a) If you are new user, click Create My Account to register. You will be prompted to enter an access code, which will look similar to PP8XLP3XD528HC. If your textbook did not come with access, you may purchase a new code at b) If you are a returning user, enter your login information and click Sign in (a link is provided if you have forgotten your password). Select the textbook from the drop-down list, or enter the access code included with your textbook if you have not done so already. 2. From your Bookshelf, you can link to the additional resources, such as Global Geoscience Watch and GREENR that come with your textbook purchase, which are listed on the right. Select an existing textbook, or enter a new access code. Accessing GREENR from Global Geoscience Watch Note that access to GREENR is also available from within Global Geoscience Watch. Simply click the Access GREENR Now button from the Global Geoscience Watch home page.

5 About the Global Geoscience Watch Portals User's Guide: Global Geoscience Watch 5 When you first access GREENR, the Global Geoscience Watch Portal is displayed. This Portal brings together specially selected resources to complement your textbook and classroom studies. Here you will find an Overview with information about the geosciences, including an overview of the various disciplines, as well as content related to these areas. The four other Global Geoscience Watch Portals may be found in the Related Portals section. A Sample Portal Here is a view of the Global Geoscience Watch Portal, which is continuously updated with current content. The page banner Breadcrumb trail to navigate to previous pages Create a bookmark or share with an online social network Portals feature an Overview essay Click VIEW ALL to get all results for that type of content Link to podcasts directly from this page Link to related Portals Selection box to mark an item that interests you that you want to access later Content is grouped by type of media. Scroll down your screen for more results not shown in this example.

6 6 User's Guide: Global Geoscience Watch Retrieving the Content Any content you select to view is known as a Document. From the Document View, you ll be able to print, and download the content; generate a bibliographic citation; post a link back to the page via a social networking site, as well as use other tools. Learn more about the Document View on page 18. View images or play videos Read the complete Overview essay Connect to the host site to listen to the Get information about the video or image or see all available. Click the title of the article, case study, report, etc. to view the full content Hover over the website listen for a pop-up description. Click to open the Overview Essay Click the VIEW FULL OVERVIEW >> link to read the entire Overview essay. Other Text-Based Content To read the full text of any of the articles listed, simply click on its hyperlinked title. Depending on the type of Portal you are viewing, you may find academic journal articles, book reviews, case studies, conference presentations and reports, directory listings of associations/organizations, directory listings of research centers and special libraries, magazine articles, news articles, primary sources, reference essays and statistical data.

7 Multimedia Content User's Guide: Global Geoscience Watch 7 Video and image results are grouped together in the left-hand sidebar. Clicking the play triangle button on the video panel will launch the video in a pop-up window or from the host site. Click the Images tab to access related photographs and other images. Click the DETAILS >> link to view a larger version of the image. Podcast results are grouped together on the right-hand side of the page. Click the audio icon podcast from the host site. to launch the Relevant websites hand-selected by the advisory board appear on the right-hand side. Hovering the mouse pointer over a website link pops-up a brief description of the site. Clicking the link takes you directly to the site. Portal Tools BOOKMARK: By using the Gale Bookmark feature you and others can re-visit practically any page you choose after you've ended your current session. You can Bookmark pages with dynamic content, such as a Portal. Click the Bookmark star and a separate browser window will open, allowing you to copy and paste the Bookmark address into another document, add it to your browser bookmarks, and/or it. SHARE: Clicking the Share tool reveals a list of supported thirdparty sites. Selecting a third-party social networking service will take you its sign-in page or add bookmark page. Marking Items While viewing search results and individual articles, essays, images and other content records, you may want to collect, or mark items for later printing, ing, downloading and/or to generate bibliographic citations. You can mark items whenever you see the selection checkbox 17), or Document View page (page 18). on a Portal, standard search results page (page To view your marked items, click the MARKED LIST button on the page banner. Select items, then click DOWNLOAD to save them in HTML format Your marked items will be grouped by content type. You may print, , and generate citations for them.

8 8 User's Guide: Global Geoscience Watch Navigating Back to the Global Geoscience Watch Portal To go directly to the Global Geoscience Watch Portal, enter Global Geoscience Watch in the Basic Search box in the banner area at the top of the page and click the SEARCH button. Return to the Global Geoscience Watch portal by doing a basic search Alternatively, you may also browse for all related Global Geoscience Watch Portals. Begin by clicking the VIEW ALL >> link from the home page, as shown. Next, select any of the related Global Geoscience Watch Portals from the Topics page, as shown below. You can learn more about browsing the database in the next section. Select any of the Global Geoscience Watch Portals, or another topic.

9 User's Guide: Global Geoscience Watch 9 How to Browse In addition to using the Global Geoscience Watch Portals, you may browse and search the full database. This section will explain what you ll find on the home page, how to browse the different kinds of Issues Portals and how to use the World Map. The following section, beginning on page 15, will show you how to do Basic and Advanced Searches. The Home Page Click the HOME button on the page banner to begin browsing/searching the academic, media-rich analysis, reference and current news content available.

10 10 User's Guide: Global Geoscience Watch Getting Help Refer to the online Help for more details on using the home page and any other features. Open the Help window by selecting HELP >> from the TOOLBOX menu (refer to page 20) at the top of the page. Browse Issues/Topics An Issues Portal presents a basic summary of a specific issue or topic, along with multimedia, reference sources, case studies, periodical articles, statistics, conference presentations, directory listings, primary source documents, book reviews and other content that provide background context and in-depth analysis. The featured issues and topics are arranged into ten categories (issues/topics may appear in multiple categories). Selecting an Issue/Topic The following example steps you through selecting an issue or topic and viewing its Portal results page. This example begins by clicking the BROWSE ISSUES AND TOPICS button on the page banner, which takes you to the Browse Issues and Topics page, as shown below. Select a category, such as Environment and Ecology. The system will display an alphabetical list of all issues and topics within the selected category, along with a general description of the category. From there you can click on a specific issue or topic. Clicking on a specific issue/topic causes the system to search for all materials on that subject and display your results on a Portal page.

11 User's Guide: Global Geoscience Watch 11 Below is a sample view of the selected Issues Portal: Refer to page 5 for more details on using a Portal. Browse Countries A Country Portal presents an environmentally-focused overview and Quick Facts about a nation. You will also find multimedia, reference sources, case studies, periodical articles, statistics, conference presentations, directory listings, primary source documents, book reviews and other content discussing and analyzing the environmental issues faced by that country. An interactive World Map is provided so that you can access the Country Portals. Using the World Map The following example steps you through using the World Map to view a Country Portal results page. This example begins by clicking the WORLD MAP button on the page banner.

12 12 User's Guide: Global Geoscience Watch A sample view of the interactive Google World Map is shown below. Use the BROWSE drop-down list and select Browse Countries. Then select the link for Brazil, as shown. The map will refresh itself and place info balloons contains information pertaining to your selection. on every geographic area that To go to the Country Portal, click the VIEW COUNTRY PORTAL>> link from the country pop-up, as shown below. Additional links take you to Issues Portals, and from the News tab you can link to news articles.

13 A Sample Country Portal User's Guide: Global Geoscience Watch 13 Refer to page 5 for more details on using a Portal.

14 14 User's Guide: Global Geoscience Watch Searching the World Map The previous example showed one way to use the World Map. You may also browse topics, as shown below: Lastly, you may use the World Map to search the Country Portals for your search term(s). An example is shown: The info balloons that appear indicate that search results were found relating to the country indicated.

15 User's Guide: Global Geoscience Watch 15 How to Search Basic Search At the top of every page in this database, you'll find the Basic Search box along with a link to the Advanced Search page. Basic Search searches the key fields (such as titles and subject headings) of all content in this database, making this a good all-purpose search. Whenever possible, the system will present your Basic Search results as a Portal results page (refer to page 5). When there is no Issues/Organization/Country Portal that matches your search terms, the system will display a standard results page (refer to page 17). Advanced Search Here's how to perform an Advanced Search: 1. Click the ADVANCED SEARCH button that appears in the page banner 2. Enter your search term(s) in the top-most input box 3. Select an index from the drop-down menu (some indexes may be browsed via a Browse link that appears when the index is selected) 4. To optionally search on another index, select a logical operator (AND, OR, NOT), enter additional search term(s) and select an index you may add as many rows as needed by clicking add a row (the AND operator is shown by default, but you may change it) 5. Optionally enter one or more search limiters using the fields found below the search input boxes to narrow your search results in more specific ways 6. Click the Search button

16 16 User's Guide: Global Geoscience Watch A view of the Advanced Search page: When your search includes just one of the following indexes keyword, subject or entire document the system will first look for your search terms in the Issues, Organization and Country Portals and display a Portal page whenever possible. For example, an Advanced Search on the keyword index for the term China will take you to the Country Portal for China. However, an Advanced Search using indexes other than those mentioned, or using multiple indexes, will display a standard results list page, as described next.

17 The Standard Search Results Page User's Guide: Global Geoscience Watch 17 In some cases your search will not find a matching Portal, but the system will still display results matching your search terms. This will occur most often when you are performing an Advanced Search using multiple indexes and/or search limiters, when searching just the video content, or when searching just the news content. You may also get a standard results page when using the Basic Search box if your search query is vague (i.e., a single word that could be used in many contexts) or very specific (i.e., technical jargon). Here is a partial view of a non-portal results page showing the results of an Advanced Search query that used search limiters:

18 18 User's Guide: Global Geoscience Watch Document View Clicking on a document title from your search results (either a Portal page or the standard results page) or from your marked items list (page 7) displays the complete content of the record, be it a magazine article, a reference essay, a podcast transcript, and so on. A Sample Document Below is a sample showing the Document View page.

19 The TOOLS Box on the Document View User's Guide: Global Geoscience Watch 19 To help you manage the document you are currently viewing on the Document View page and make its content more accessible, use the features listed in the TOOLS box. The following table provides a brief description of the available tools. Note that some tools, such as PDF and DOWNLOAD MP3, are not available for every type of document. Tool What it Does Marking and Saving a Document Reformats the current page for printing; you can print individual documents or a list of documents you have marked You can content from this database to yourself and others; you can e- mail individual documents or a list of documents you have marked Save the current page as a file to your computer, USB flash drive, or other portable device; you can download individual documents or a list of documents you have marked Open or save the document in Portable Document Format (PDF) (not available with some documents) Bookmark the current page for use with a social networking system or service, such as Delicious, Facebook, Google, MySpace, Twitter, and others (not available for videos) Lets you create a Gale Bookmark so that you can retrieve at a later time the page you are viewing. Note that simply using your browser's bookmark or favorites feature will not work to bookmark pages that contain dynamic content, such as search results, marked items or a document. Download an audio version of the document (not available for videos, images and podcasts) Get a bibliographic citation automatically generated for you in a format of your choice (more details on page 20) Mark the current document, which sets it aside so you can print, , download and generate bibliographic citations for all your marked items at once (refer to page 7) Display the text of the document in a different language Within the TOOLS Box, you'll find an ADD TO MARK LIST selection checkbox. Click the selection box to mark the document so that you can easily return to it at any time during your current session (refer to page 7). A document that you have previously marked will show a check mark in the checkbox. You can also save the web address of the document for future access after you've ended your current session by clicking the Bookmark star (refer to page 7).

20 20 User's Guide: Global Geoscience Watch The TOOLBOX Menu The TOOLBOX menu, located at the top of the page in the banner area, lets you access the following: How to Cite HELP Opens the Help window ABOUT Takes you to the GREENR product website PREFERENCES Lets you customize certain features of your current session BOOKMARK Copy and paste the website address of the page currently being viewed into another document, add it to your browser bookmarks, and/or it (refer to page 7). This option is not available for all pages. DICTIONARY Look up words in an online dictionary TITLE LIST Download source lists GUIDED TOUR Watch a video tour of GREENR You can get bibliographic citation(s) automatically generated for you in a format of your choice, including in the Modern Language Association and the American Psychological Association styles. You may generate a citation for a single document from the Document View page (page 18). Or you can generate multiple citations at once from your list of marked items (page 7). Just look for the CITATION TOOLS tool. You will be able to save the formatted citation(s) as an HTML file, view on-screen for printing, or export the citation(s) for use with third-party software.