• New Spice — Study like a scholar, scholar
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• pipl.com
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• Try this: Coolest thing ever Firefox extension call Libx
  • a cool way to search Scholarsportal article database
• 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 bibliographies: various style guides and the Landmark Citation Machine and NCSU Citation Builder.
• Scientific publication cycle
• Academic Integrity & Plagiarism web site and Quiz.

• 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

• Peer review: researchers validating each others work before publication
• Kinds of documents:
  • patents: government granted license to an invention
  • standards: agreed upon methodology: ie 802.11
  • journals: research results presented in a periodical/magazine. Peer reviewed.
  • trade literature: discipline-specific magazines. Not Peer Reviewed.
  • conference proceedings: research results presented at a meeting. Often peer reviewed, but not always.
  • technical report: description of a solution to a specific problem. Not peer reviewed.
  • books
    • reference: encyclopedias, tables, data collections, properties
    • manuals: lab methods, programming languages, operating systems
    • monographs: general topics
  • technical specifications: how a device or component works, ie circuit diagrams
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• My Topic: 2007, ground penetrating radar
  

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