Fun Stuff!!! |
- New Spice — Study like a scholar, scholar
- Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the earth yet?
- pipl.com
- What does Facebook publish about you and your friends?
FREE Citation Management Software |
- 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
Logging in from Home |
- 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
Background Information |
- Scientific Publication Cycle
- For bibliographies: various style guides & Landmarks Citation Machine
- Academic Integrity and Plagiarism site and quiz.
- Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy — fantastic resource !
- Encyclopedia Britannica — best general resource
- Oxford Reference Online — lots of online dictionaries in science & other fields
Picking a Topic |
Find something you’re interested, make sure it’s not too general or too specific. Have a plan B.
My topic: Outsourcing in the IT industry, pros & cons
Finding Books & Journals |
- Do a search in The York Catalogue:
- by title: Strategic computing : DARPA and the quest for machine
intelligence, 1983-1993 - by author: Ceruzzi Paul
- by journal title: Scientific American
- by subject: computers and society
- by keyword: outsourcing
- by keyword: outsourcing and software
- by keyword: outsourcing and (software or technology)
- by keyword: technology and history
- by keyword: information and society
- by keyword: open source and software
- by keyword: intellectual property and technology
- by keyword: comput$ and hist$ and canad$
- by title: Strategic computing : DARPA and the quest for machine
- Three important books in Steacie reference section:
- Encyclopedia of information systems — T 58.5 E52 2003
- Encyclopedia of computer science — QA 76.15 E48 2003
- Encyclopedia of computers and computer history — QA 76.15 E53 2001
- Books 24×7 — Amazing ebooks package!
- Scholars Portal eBooks — a great big pile of ebooks
- Synthesis — ebook package with several items on technology & society
Finding Articles |
These online databases can also be found in the eResources
Quick Links or Search boxes on the library home page.
- all the databases are similar, so try searches like these
- outsourcing and castell
- outsourcing and barney
- outsourcing and terranova
- barney and global and network
- barney and labor and technology
- outsourcing and shortages
- outsourcing and programmers
- outsourcing and engineers
- computers and society
- technology and history
- information and society
- open source and software and legal
- intellectual property and technology and ethical
- outsourcing and information technology and human resources
- (outsourcing or offshoring) and software development
Journals & magazines.
- Scholars Portal Journals — good source for journal articles
- ABI/Inform & Business Source Premier — mostly full text, for the business perspective
- Sociological Abstracts — search engine, good for social aspects of technology
- Communications Abstracts & Communications and Mass Media Complete — search engines more geared to communications studies.
- Computer Database — good source for technology trade literature
- ExpandedAcademic & Research Library — good general sources, get info from a few different perspectives, mostly full text
- ACM Digital Library: lots of comp sci conferences and journals, good for case studies
- IEEE Xplore :good source of full text articles on info tech
- IEEE technology and society magazine — good resource
Government Documents
Newspapers.
- Canadian Newsstand — full text newspaper source
- Lexis Nexis Academic — international news coverage
Using the Internet Wisely |
- Wikipedia — a free, open source encyclopedia. Surprisingly good for some background information
- Using Google or Google Scholar as a scholarly research tool:
- strategy: find good portal sites: Google directory page
- strategy: make sure you know exactly who produced the content
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