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!
- Library Footnotes, Bibliographies, RefWorks page
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
Background Information |
- 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
Picking a Topic |
My topic: science and religion –> Scopes trial
My topic: astrolabes
- pick a topic that interests you
- narrow your topic
- get a angle/perspective
- have a plan B
Finding Books |
Do a search in The York Catalogue:
- by title: Evolution vs. creationism : an introduction
- by author: Scott Eugenie
- by journal title: Scientific American
- by subject: religion
- by subject: religion and science
- by keyword:
- religion and science
- darwin and religion
- evolution and religion
- scopes and trial
- astrolabes
- astronomical equipment
- scientific instruments
- Books 24×7: great engineering, technology and business ebooks
- Scholars Portal eBooks — more 1000s or ebooks. Don’t forget to search with Full Text checked
- Give Google Books Search a try to find more obscure topics! don’t forget, you can borrow books we don’t have via Racer
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- Scopes trial transcript
- dover intelligent design trial transcript
Finding Articles |
All the article databases are similar. Try searches like these. More info on various subjects on the Find Articles by Subject page.
- religion and science
- darwin and religion
- evolution and creationism
- evolution and religion
- scopes and trial
- dover and trial
Primary vs. Secondary Sources
- Primary (science): Scientists describing their own experiments for other scientists. Usually in journals or conferences. Peer review is an important concept.
- Secondary sources: Social scientists or humanists writing about the social/historical/philosophical/etc context of science & scientists. Social Studies of Science, Science & Technology Studies, History & Philosophy of Science.
A list of the best databases for general science topics
- Scholars portal journals — huge multidisciplinary database of articles
- Scholars Portal Search — interdisciplinary/aggregated bibliographic database
- Sociological Abstracts — best for sociology
- JSTOR — full text of various sociology, history & history of science journals
- Expanded Academic & Research Library — good general sources, mostly full text
- Historical Abstracts — Indexes major journals in history.
- Canadian Newsstand — good newspaper coverage
- Toronto Star, Globe and Mail and New York Times deep archives (all 100+ years).
- Web of Science — Very good coverage of all academic fields, good for book reviews & for citation tracking
- Biological Abstracts & Pubmed — life sciences
- PsycInfo — psychology and neurosciences
- INSPEC, Compendex & IEEE — physics, engineering & computer science
- MathSciNet — math
- Business Source Premier & ABI Inform — business database, follow the money
- History of Science, Technology & Medicine — most advanced, but best choice for history of science topics, finds books and articles
- Art & Architecture resources page
- History & Philosophy of ST resources page
- Sociology Resources page
Newspapers
- 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
- Canadian Newsstand — Canadian newspaper articles
- Lexis Nexis Academic — good international newspaper coverage
- Toronto Star, 1894-2004 (off campus)
- Globe and Mail, 1884-2002 (off campus)
Using the Internet Wisely |
- ScienceBlogs — blog aggregation site for science
- Using Google as a scholarly research tool:
- Find a good portal site
- remember: who, why and when
- Wikipedia — solid source of links & basic info, not academic or 100% reliable Wikipedia as a starting point. Remember that for a controversial topic there can be a lot of back and forth and “conflict of interest” changes
- Biologists helping bookstores
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