NATS 1810 Energy Research Session

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
FAQ and Instructions for various databases

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!

My topic: The Geysers geothermal project in California

Plan B: some information on waste-to-energy projects in Canada

Need to use Passport York or bar code number & PIN from library card to authenticate as 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

All this information is also available in the various research guides here.
Do a search in The York Catalogue:
- by title: Fuel cell power for transportation 2004
- by author: Ceruzzi Paul
- by journal title: Scientific American
- by keyword:
  - geothermal power
  - geothermal energy geysers
  - geothermal and california
Books 24×7 has lots of full text books on energy
Google Book Search
- great for searching inside all the books and then checking to see if we have the one you want
- search on:
  - geothermal and power plants and geysers and california
- don’t forget, you can borrow books we don’t have via Racer
Lots of resources on Energy at Steacie
- Encyclopedia of energy (6v) — TJ 163.2 E539 2004 Steacie Ref
- Ullmann’s encyclopedia of industrial chemistry (40v) — TP 9 U57 2003 in the Steacie Reference area

These online databases can also be found in the eResources
Quick Links or Search boxes on the library home page.

All the info below is selected from the

Find Articles by Subject page

NOTE: You can use the resources in this section to find out both about
your topic and the people involved

all the databases are similar, so try searches like these
- geothermal and “the geysers” and california
- geothermal and efficiency
- geothermal and cost

General Resources Useful for all Topics

Scholars Portal — lots of full text, very good general source.
IEEE Xplore — full text engineering database with lots of good content
ABI/Inform & Business Source Premier — excellent business coverage, mostly full text
Expanded Academic, Research Library — good general sources
Newspapers (really important for this assignment):
- Lexis Nexis Academic — very complete database of US & International news
- Canadian Newsstand — Canadian newspaper articles, periodicals only
- Canadian Periodical Index — good for magazines & periodicals
- Factiva — US & international newspaper coverage
- Newspapers resource page

Using Google as a scholarly research tool:
- strategy: find good portal sites
- strategy: make sure you know exactly who produced the content
Wikipedia — a free, open source encyclopedia. Surprisingly good for background info but not for more serious reference
- The Geysers

Google Scholar
- issues: currency (don’t update often), comprehensiveness (won’t say what isn’t in their database)

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