——marine affairs information flow——
summary literature popular literature professional literature peer-reviewed literature semi-formal communication informal communication research activity
Information production: Information produced and distributed by Marine Affairs research tends to flow from left to right, in the direction of the wave in the model above -- from the informal communication mode in the trough stage of the wave toward the formal types of publications in the crest.
Information-seeking and use: Students exploring a topic for course work will tend to move backwards from the summary and popular literature, rarely using material from the informal and semi-formal modes until graduate study. Material from the informal and semi-formal modes--less filtered information--will typically require greater knowledge of the discipline to understand and use.
Click on each text object to view a page that describes the activity and associated information and publication types represented. These pages will provide you with descriptions, strengths and considerations, and some examples for each type of information source, as well as selected examples of databases and archives useful for finding each type of information source.You may develop your own bibliography of similar sources using links at the bottom of each page.

Click on the surfer-dude to access a page that describes types of Marine Affairs-related research. If you are unfamiliar with the work Marine Affairs scholars do, this will provide a good starting point.

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