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FREE Citation Management Software
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FREE Citation Management Software
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- 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
- 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!
- Need to use Passport York or bar code number & PIN from library card to authenticate as a York user
- Information here on logging in
Find something you’re interested, make sure it’s not too general or too specific. Have a plan B.
My topic: outsourcing & brain drain (IT sector, doctors)
- pick a topic that interests you
- narrow your topic — often helpful to start looking at sources to help you narrow
- get a angle/perspective
- have a plan B (exporting electronic waste)
- toolbox approach: books, journal articles, newspapers & magazines, government sources
- Stage One: Relevant Wikipedia articles
- Do a search in The York Catalogue:
- by title: Strategic computing : DARPA and the quest for machine
intelligence, 1983-1993
- by author: Ceruzzi Paul
- by journal title: Scientific American
- by subject: computers and society
- by keyword: outsourcing
- by keyword: outsourcing and software
- by keyword: outsourcing and (software or technology)
- by keyword: technology and history
- by keyword: information and society
- by keyword: open source and software
- by keyword: intellectual property and technology
- by keyword: comput$ and hist$ and canad$
- Three important books in Steacie reference section:
- Encyclopedia of information systems — T 58.5 E52 2003
- Encyclopedia of computer science — QA 76.15 E48 2003
- Encyclopedia of computers and computer history — Q
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These online databases can also be found in the eResources
Quick Links or Search boxes on the library home page.
- all the databases are similar, so try searches like these
- outsourcing and shortages
- outsourcing and programmers
- outsourcing and engineers
- computers and society
- technology and history
- information and society
- open source and software and legal
- intellectual property and technology and ethical
- outsourcing and information technology and human resources
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Using the Internet Wisely
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- Wikipedia — a free, open source encyclopedia. Surprisingly good for some background information
- Using Google or Google Scholar as a scholarly research tool:
- strategy: find good portal sites: Google directory page
- strategy: make sure you know exactly who produced the content
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