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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
- 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!
- Journal & conference articles give cutting edge, peer reviewed information on most topics
- Pubmed — good for medical and health topics, but not as easy to find full text
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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
Email: jdupuis@yorku.ca
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