HUMA 1910 — Science & the Humanities

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.
  • 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

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

• Try this: Coolest thing ever Firefox extension call Libx
  • a cool way to search Scholarsportal article database

• Scientific publication cycle

• 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

My notable science people:

• Isaac Asimov
• Edward O. Wilson
• Norman Bethune
• Aldous Huxley

Hint: use Wikipedia to get ideas about what their main issues/themes are in relation to science & society

Finding Books

Do a search in The York Catalogue:

• by title: The citizen-powered energy handbook : community solutions to a global crisis
• by author: pahl greg
• by journal title: Scientific American
• by keyword:
  • isaac asimov and laws of robotics
  • asimov and society
  • bethune and china
  • bethune and communism
• Google Books Search — good choice to find books by more obscure people, also lots of older material is public domain
  • RACER to get books we don’t have. It usually only takes a couple of days to get the book if another ON university has it.

• Scholars Portal eBooks — a great big pile of ebooks

Finding Articles

Note: Some good article strategies:

• Look for articles both by and about your person
• could be magazine, newspaper or journal articles
• If you find one good book or journal article source about your person but are having trouble find something by her, you should check out the references/bibliography section of the sources you do have
• The Wikepedia article may also have good sources

All the article databases are similar. Try searches like those above.

A list of the best databases for general science/development topics

• Scholar’s Portal Journals:  full text, good general source of articles

• Web of Science –Good selection of science articles, most with links to full text
• Scopus — similar to web of science

• IEEE Xplore — full text engineering database

• JSTOR — good full text, better for historical topics
  • Remember: don’t use basic search, advanced only!

• Canadian Periodical Index — good source for contemporary Canadian figures as well as for magazine & journal articles
• Expanded Academic and Academic Onefile — good general sources for journals & magazines

Newspapers

• Canadian Newsstand — Canadian newspaper articles
• Lexis Nexis Academic — good international newspaper coverage

• New York Times deep archives 1851 – 2003.
• London Times Digital archives 1785-1985.
• Factiva: has deep archive for Globe and Mail from late 1970s, may be easier to search

• Toronto Star, 1894-2004 (off campus)
• Globe and Mail, 1884-2002 (off campus)

• York Libraries Newspapers page

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