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 |
- Unlimited free Interlibrary Loan articles via RACER!
- Using the UofT libraries
- General library-related Grad student info.
- 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
- Synthesis — many titles on technology and society
- Scholars Portal ebooks — great big pile of ebooks on all subjects
- Worldcat — holdings of a vast number of North American and other libraries, see what exists and where it is.
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
- Web of Science — Very good coverage of general social science & humanities fields, very interdisciplinary, deep backfiles from 1898
- Scopus — another good general database with citation information, mostly science, but vastly improved coverage of the humanities & social sciences
- 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
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 Journals — full text of millions of articles in all fields, a terrific interdisciplinary database
- 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
Where to publish? |
- Citation tracking & journal “impact”
- Web of Science
- Scopus
- Google Scholar
- Journal Citation Reports
- Papers Invited (conferences looking for submissions)
- Open Access publishers where the library subsidizes author fees
- Other Open Access resources
- Open DOAR — directory of open access repositories
- arxiv — physics, math & CS papers
- SSRN — social science repository
- RePEc — economics repository
- Pubmed Central
- Pubmed Central Canada (CIHR policy)
- York Space
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Sherpa/Romeo for figuring out publisher OA posting policies
To contact me:
Email: jdupuis@yorku.ca
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