Just for fun |
- The Joy of Books
- 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?
For Starters |
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
- Zotero and Mendeley are other options
- Library Footnotes, Bibliographies, RefWorks page
General Information |
- 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
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
My topic: history of tuberculosis in Canada, esp. Quebec/Ste-Agathe
Logging in from Home |
- Need to use Acadlabs login to authenticate as a York user
- Information here on logging in
- Remember: need to type in name of eresource using “by title” link after logging in.
Finding Resources at the Library |
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Finding Books & Journals |
- Do a search in The York Catalogue:
- by title: Concurrent programming in Java : design principles and patterns
- by author: Lightman Bernard
- by journal title: journal of the acm
- by subject: tuberculosis
- by keyword: tuberculosis and canada
- Google Book Search
- great for searching inside all the books and then checking to see if we have the one you want
- don’t forget, you can borrow books we don’t have via Racer
- Some ebook choices
- Books 24×7 — technology & engineering ebooks
- Scholars Portal ebooks — great big pile of ebooks on all subjects
Finding Articles |
These online databases can also be found in the eResources Quick Links or Search boxes on the library home page.
Many of the other Subject Research Guides found on the home page will be relevant, including the History & Philosophy of Science one.
Article Citation Databases
- History of Science, Technology and Medicine
- Historical Abstracts — Indexes major journals in history
- America History & Life
- Sociological Abstracts
- Philosopher’s Index
- Canadian Periodical Index
- ABI Inform and Business Source Premier: full text business search engines
- Remember, it may be handy to add “history” to searches to narrow them down
- ie: ibm and holocaust and history
- ie: film and animation and history and revolutionary
- Humanities Index
- Web of Science — Very good coverage of general social science & humanities fields, very interdisciplinary
- Scopus — another good general database with citation information, mostly science, but vastly improved coverage of the humanities & social sciences. Can also be used to do citation tracking of the literature through time
- Web of Science — good interdisciplinary source, also good for citation tracking through time
Full Text Databases: articles, newspapers, books
(See History subject page!)
- JSTOR — full text of various history & history of science journals
- For JSTOR it is important to use Advanced Search and select “Article” and “History of Science”
- Scholars Portal
- Early English Books Online
- Digital Dissertations and at York
- IEEE Xplore — All IEEE journals & proceedings, good historical material on the history of computing
- The Oxford companion to the history of modern science
- Toronto Star, 1894-2004 (off campus)
- Globe and Mail, 1884-2002 (off campus)
- 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
- York Libraries Newspapers page
To contact me:
Office: Steacie 102H
Email: jdupuis@yorku.ca
MSN IM: john_dupuis@hotmail.com
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