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FREE Citation Management Software |
- The Joy of Books
- New Spice — Study like a scholar, scholar
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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
- 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
- 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!
- Library Footnotes, Bibliographies, RefWorks page
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
Background Information |
- For bibliographies: various style guides & Landmarks Citation Machine
- Encyclopedia Britannica — best general resource
- Oxford Reference Online — lots of online dictionaries in science & other fields
Scholarly publishing |
- Scientific Publication Cycle
- Peer review is an important concept in science
- Main types of documents that are useful for research in computing in particular and science in general
Picking a Topic |
Find something you’re interested, make sure it’s not too general or too specific. Have a plan B.
My topic: outsourcing & brain drain in the IT sector
- 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
- Why use Wikipedia
- A good place to start your search for information — but only the start
- Helps build vocabulary for searches later on
- Usually good links to further, high quality resources
- ewaste
- outsourcing
| BOOLEAN SEARCHING |
Take a look at a Venn Diagram!
Most commons Boolean operators: AND & OR.
AND is used to combine two concepts (ie. outsourcing and programming)
OR is used for synonyms (ie. outsourcing or offshoring)
Sometimes it’s also handy to use NOT
It’s also useful to use parentheses to make sure that your concepts are grouped exactly like you want them to be
Programming and (outsourcing or offshoring)
Finding Books & Journals |
- 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$
- by title: Strategic computing : DARPA and the quest for machine
- 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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- Books 24×7 — Amazing ebooks package!
- Scholars Portal eBooks — a great big pile of ebooks
- Synthesis — ebook package with several items on technology & society
- Google Book Searchis a great tool for finding relevant books
- outsourcing IT to india
- Use RACER to borrow books that York doesn’t have!
Finding Articles |
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
Full Text Databases — The full text for most of the articles is included in the database itself. This is as opposed to Google and other databases which just index data and point to it in other locations.
- Scholars Portal Journals — good source for journal articles
- ABI/Inform & Business Source Premier — mostly full text, for the business perspective
- Computer Database — good source for technology trade literature
- ExpandedAcademic & Research Library — good general sources, get info from a few different perspectives, mostly full text
- ACM Digital Library: lots of comp sci conferences and journals, good for case studies
- IEEE Xplore :good source of full text articles on info tech
- IEEE technology and society magazine — good resource
- Canadian Newsstand — good source of full text Canadian newspapers
- Lexis Nexis Academic — full text international news sources
| PATENTS |
Patents are exclusive rights to some sort of intellectual property granted by a government
Two best sources:
- Google Patent — easiest to use but only US & not current
- Espacenet — international and up to date, but more complex to use
Using the Internet Wisely |
- Wikipedia — a free, open source encyclopedia. Surprisingly good for some background information
- Using Google or Google Scholaras a scholarly research tool:
- strategy: find good portal sites: Google directory page
- strategy: make sure you know exactly who produced the content
Email: jdupuis@yorku.ca
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