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FREE Citation Management Software
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- 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!
- 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
- some important considerations
- vehicle: type, fuel, return?
- psychology of long trips
- Martian environment
- sustainable food production/biosphere considerations
- 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!
- 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
- 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!):
- NASA
- 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
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Using the Internet Wisely
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- 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
- 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
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