LibGuides: UGS 302: Materials Science and Technology / Bhasin: Assignment Part III

The dark side of your material

For this part of your assignment, you need to find information about the dark side of your material - health, environmental ramifications, perhaps. Where would you learn about that?

Academic Search Complete
News, magazine and journal articles from across disciplines.

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Features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 journals.
Web of Science
Journals from all fields of science. Use 'Search'.

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Nexis Uni
This is a tough database to search (see screenshots below), but it may help you uncover news stories, investigative journalism and reporting on the negative impacts of your material.

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UGS 302: Materials Science and Technology / Bhasin

Assignment Part III

The dark side of your material

Screenshots of LexisNexis