Blocky header bars, plain white background, and ads in every margin set off alarm bells in my head the first time I visited sciencedaily.com. I didn't know which of the three title bars I should use to navigate to the archaeology section, and got very close to closing the window when I started to get flashbacks of my time spent on world-mysteries.com. Under the furthest right tab I found what I was looking for, and was brought to a similar looking page filled half with ads and half with black//blue on white text. In a final attempt to access some good information I scrolled down the page, past the small block of google ads, and a long list of recent, relevant, and well cited stories.
Most stories are slightly modified media releases from various Universities throughout the world. Although they aren't adding any new material or opinions to the articles, they often post them within one day of the original release. This creates a good one stop source to find information on the most recent archaeological and scientific discoveries. Another extremely helpful feature of sciencedaily is the pre-formatted page citing. All you need to do to reference any science daily article is to scroll to the bottom, copy, and paste. The accurate citations also help readers find other sources on the same topic. As long as you don't care to much for aesthetics, then sciencedaily is a hard to beat online source.
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