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?
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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
- Don’t forget to install Write&Cite plugin on your PC!
- For off campus use, get the York group code here.
- FAQ and Instructions for various databases
- RefWorks Tutorial
- 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 |
- Scientific publication cycle
- Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy — fantastic resource!
- Encyclopedia Britannica — best general resource
- Oxford Reference Online — lots of online dictionaries in science & other fields
My topic: natural selection
Sometimes it might help to add a search term to help you narrow down, like: birds, mammals, environmental
- pick a topic that interests you
- narrow your topic
- get a angle/perspective
- be aware of controversial topics, ie irreducible complexity
- have a plan B
Assignment #1 — Popular media |
- Scientific American (1948-2010) — good source for magazine articles
- Canadian Newsstand — Canadian newspapers
- Lexis Nexis Academic — international newspaper coverage
- Toronto Star, Globe and Mail and New York Times deep archives (all 100+ years).
Assignment #2 — Research or Review Article |
A list of the best databases for general science topics
- Scholars Portal Journals — best source for full text science articles
- Biological Abstracts — like Google for biology
- Scopus — more general science resources
Assignment #3 — Web literacy |
- In the context of web context: How to check out any Web page — interesting post by journalist Scott Rosenberg with some tips & tricks on using web sources
- ScienceBlogs — blog aggregation site for science, good source of science news & informal commentary
- ScienceSeeker & ScienceBlogging.org — science blog agggregation sites
- ResearchBlogging.org — scientists (mostly) blogging about peer-reviewed research
- Futurity — a site that aggregates research university press release-type information
- Using Google as a scholarly research tool:
- remember: who, why and when
- What is the source, what are the credentials of the author, potential biases, currency, academic or popular
- Wikipedia — Wikipedia does link to other websites that you can use
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