• Study like a scholar, scholar
• pipl.com
• What does Facebook publish about you and your friends?

• RefWorks site (Login) can help you manage your footnotes & bibliography on the web. Easy to use, interfaces directly with MS Word to create footnotes & bibliographies
• Key points:
  • Don’t forget to install Write-n-Cite on your PC.  It’s in the Tools menu
  • Also don’t forget to move items out of the “Last Imported” folder into the folder you create for your course
  • Lastly, don’t forget to  use “Edit citation” in the Write-n-cite application to get page numbers!

• For off campus use, get the York group code here.
• FAQ and Instructions for various databases
• RefWorks Tutorial
• Plan B: various style guides & Landmarks Citation Machine

• Need to use Passport York or bar code number & PIN from library card to authenticate as a York user
• Information here on logging in
• Remember: Use the library web page or this blog post for the link as it will prompt for login

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• Study like a scholar, scholar
• pipl.com
• What does Facebook publish about you and your friends?

• RefWorks site (Login) can help you manage your footnotes & bibliography on the web. Easy to use, interfaces directly with MS Word to create footnotes & bibliographies
  • For off campus use, get the York group code here.
  • FAQ and Instructions for various databases
  • RefWorks Tutorial
  • For ACM Digital Library & other databases like dblp, you can import from the bibtex format.
    • Use the References–>Import Feature

• Key points:

• Don’t forget to install Write-n-Cite on your PC. It’s in the Tools menu
• Also don’t forget to move items out of the “Last Imported” folder into the folder you create for your course
• Lastly, don’t forget to use “Edit citation” in the Write-n-cite application to get page numbers!

• Zotero and Mendeley are other options

• Library Footnotes, Bibliographies, RefWorks page

• Plan B: various style guides & Landmarks Citation Machine

• Need to use Passport York or bar code number & PIN from library card to authenticate as a York user
• Information here on logging in
• Remember: Use the library web page or this blog post for the link as it will prompt for login

Continue reading →

• colour blindness test

• RefWorks site (Login) can help you manage your footnotes & bibliography on the web. Easy to use, interfaces directly with MS Word to create footnotes & bibliographies
• For off campus use, get the York group code here

Key points:

• Don’t forget to install Write-n-Cite on your PC. It’s in the Tools menu
• Also don’t forget to move items out of the “Last Imported” folder into the folder you create for your course
• Lastly, don’t forget to use “Edit citation” in the Write-n-cite application to get page numbers!

• FAQ and Instructions for various databases
• RefWorks Tutorial
• Plan B: various style guides & Landmark Citation Machine

• Scientific publication cycle
• For bibliographies: various style guides and the Landmark Citation Machine. (This search)
• Academic Integrity & Plagiarism web site.
• Encyclopedia Britannica — best general resource
• Oxford Reference Online — lots of online dictionaries in science & other fields

• Need to use Passport York or bar code number & PIN from library card to authenticate as York user
• Information here on logging in
• Remember: Use the library web page or this blog post for the link as it will prompt for login

• My topic: drug interactions & colour vision
  • sildenafil citrate & parkinson’s drugs
• Backup topic: colour blindness & traffic safety

Helps get up to speed on a topic

• Do a search in The York Catalogue:
  • by keyword
    • colour vision or color vision
    • color deficiency
    • color vision or color deficiency
    • drug interactions
    • drug interactions and vision
    • parkinson’s and drug interactions
• Best resource to find niche topic books: Google Book Search
  • find book in GBS & then check to see if York has it!
  • Use RACER if we don’t.
• Ebooks!
  • Scolars Portal eBooks — a great big pile of ebooks
  • Books 24×7 is a very comprehensive ebooks package but only of limited use for this topic

• Journal & conference articles give cutting edge, peer reviewed information on most topics

• Scholars Portal Journals — good general source for mostly full text articles.

• Pubmed — good for medical and health topics, but not as easy to find full text

• Research Library — Good general source for journal & magazine articles, maybe too general for this assignment
• Expanded Academic — general

• Biological Abstracts — specifically for biology
• Web of Science and Scopus — very good general resources, all the main journals
• Google Scholar — good general source

• Using Google as a scholarly research tool:
  • strategy: find good portal sites
  • strategy: make sure you know exactly who produced the content
  • example: waste to energy

Email: jdupuis@yorku.ca
MSN IM: john_dupuis@hotmail.com
You can also friend me or send me a message on Facebook

Don’t forget to become a fan of the Steacie Library!

• RefWorks site (Login) can help you manage your footnotes & bibliography on the web. Easy to use, interfaces directly with MS Word to create footnotes & bibliographies
• For off campus use, get the York group code here

Key points:

• Don’t forget to install Write-n-Cite on your PC. It’s in the Tools menu
• Also don’t forget to move items out of the “Last Imported” folder into the folder you create for your course
• Lastly, don’t forget to use “Edit citation” in the Write-n-cite application to get page numbers!

• FAQ and Instructions for various databases
• RefWorks Tutorial
• Plan B: various style guides & Landmark Citation Machine

• Scientific publication cycle
• For bibliographies: various style guides and the Landmark Citation Machine. (This search)
• Academic Integrity & Plagiarism web site.
• Encyclopedia Britannica — best general resource
• Oxford Reference Online — lots of online dictionaries in science & other fields

• Need to use Passport York or bar code number & PIN from library card to authenticate as York user
• Information here on logging in
• Remember: Use the library web page or this blog post for the link as it will prompt for login

• My topic: Mars mission

• Background: Wikipedia

• some important considerations
  • vehicle: type, fuel, return?
  • psychology of long trips
  • Martian environment
  • sustainable food production/biosphere considerations
    • trip & colony
  • physical effects of prolonged exposure to low gravity
  • what’s been learned from Mars analogue mission on Earth
  • Crew make-up
    • lessons from reality tv?
    • group dynamics/psychology

• Helps get up to speed on a topic
• Do a search in The York Catalogue:
  • by title: Cost-effective space mission operations
  • by author: Boden Daryl G.
  • by journal title: Scientific American
  • by keyword
    • mars analog
    • mars and biosphere
    • earth and biosphere
    • mars and mission
    • mars and colony
    • mars and life
    • space and mission and design
    • space and vehicle
    • vehicle and mars and mission
    • space mission and psychology
    • space mission and group dynamics
    • isolation and (group dynamics or psychology)
    • space and mission and low gravity and effects
• Best resource to find niche topic books: Google Book Search
  • find book in GBS & then check to see if York has it!
  • Use RACER if we don’t.
• Ebooks!
  • Scolars Portal eBooks — a great big pile of ebooks
  • Books 24×7 is a very comprehensive ebooks package but only of limited use for this topic
  • Knovel — reference/property data.  Also has live equations and interative graphs

• Journal & conference articles give cutting edge, peer reviewed information
  on most topics
• Some searches:
  • mars analog
  • mars and biosphere
  • earth and biosphere
  • mars and mission
  • mars and colony
  • mars and life
  • space and mission and design
  • space and vehicle
  • vehicle and mars and mission
  • space mission and psychology
  • space mission and group dynamics
  • isolation and (group dynamics or psychology)
  • space and mission and low gravity and effects

• Scholars Portal Journals — good general source for mostly full text articles.
• IEEE Xplore — general engineering full text database, surprisingly good for this topic
• NASA Technical Reports Server — yes, they’re thinking about Mars missions
  • Mars mission
• Research Library — Good general source for journal & magazine articles, maybe too general for this assignment
• Expanded Academic — general
• ABI/Inform &Business Source Premier — good full text from business
  journals

• Biological Abstracts — specifically for biology
• Web of Science — very good general resources, all the main journals
• Google Scholar — good general source

• Canadian Newsstand — full text of many Canadian newspapers for the last several years, good for news reports about various topics, can find interesting news coverage for this kind of topic
• Also deep archives of some papers (try New York Times!):
  • Toronto Star
  • Globe and Mail
  • New York Times

• NASA
  • Technical Reports Server
  • NASA STIHomepage
  • NASA History Office
• Wikipedia: a treasure trove of technical information, created by a community. Not edited or reviewed,so may not be complete or accurate. Tech topics tend to be pretty good.
• TechXtra — good free search engine

• Using Google as a scholarly research tool:
  • strategy: find good portal sites
  • strategy: make sure you know exactly who produced the content
  • example: waste to energy
• Wikipedia — a free, open source encyclopedia. Surprisingly good for background info but not for more serious reference
  • Extremophile
  • Galapagos Islands

• Google Scholar
  • issues: currency (don’t update often), comprehensiveness (won’t say what isn’t in their database)
• Google Book Search
  • great for searching inside all the books and then checking to see if we have the one you want
  • don’t forget, you can borrow books we don’t have via Racer

Office: Steacie 102H
Email: jdupuis@yorku.ca
MSN IM: john_dupuis@hotmail.com
You can also friend me or send me a message on Facebook

Don’t forget to become a fan of the Steacie Library!