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?

• 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!

• Zotero and Mendeley are other options

• Library Footnotes, Bibliographies, RefWorks page

• Plan B: various style guides & Landmarks Citation Machine

• Need to use Passport York or bar code number & PIN from library card to authenticate as a York user
• Information here on logging in

• 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
• The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Scott Ref PN 3433.4 E53 1993B
• The Greenwood encyclopedia of science fiction and fantasy : themes, works, and wonders, Scott Ref PS 374 S35 G74 2005
• Anatomy of wonder : a critical guide to science fiction, Scott Ref Z 5917 S36 A52 2004

Find something you’re interested, make sure it’s not too general or too specific. Have a plan B.

My topic: Samuel R. Delany & images of sexuality

Plan b:  blade runner & alien // alienation in science fiction

• Do a keyword search in Library Catalogue:
  • science fiction and history and criticism
  • science fiction and american history and criticism
  • example or author or subject: Dick, Philip k or Delany, Samuel R
• Google Books Search — Can be a good way to find relevant books.

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

Find Articles by Subject will give more databases to search — in Film and Literature and Science….

All the article databases are very similar. Here are some sample keyword searches:

• delany and triton
• delany and sexuality
• delany and (sex or sexuality or body)
• science fiction and images and (sex or sexuality or body or masculinity)
• Philip K Dick and Ubik
• dick and high castle
• science fiction and history
• alternate history
• science fiction or sci fi or scifi or sf
• alienation
• Philip k dick and high castle
• blade runner
• cameron and aliens
• cameron and alien
• cameron and aliens and sex

• Scholars Portal eJournals — great full text article source!
• Literature Online — indexes major literary journals, with some full text. Can find scholarly articles by author, ie. articles about PKD.
• MLA database — Indexes major journals.
• JSTOR — another great full text source
• Research Library — mostly full text, another good source for journal articles
• FIAF’s International Index to Film/TV Periodicals — for articles on sf films, lots of full text

• Using Google as a scholarly research tool:
  • Find a good portal site
  • remember: who, why and when
• Google Scholar — can be pretty good but a little lacking in articles on literature and film. Can be a good way to find relevant books.

Email: jdupuis@yorku.ca
You can also friend me or send me a message on Facebook, Twitter or Friendfeed.

Also, the Steacie Library now has a FaceBook page and a Twitter account! Become a Fan!

• 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?

• 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!

• Zotero and Mendeley are other options

• Library Footnotes, Bibliographies, RefWorks page

• Plan B: various style guides & Landmarks Citation Machine

• Need to use Passport York or bar code number & PIN from library card to authenticate as a York user
• Information here on logging in

• For bibliographies: various style guides & Landmarks Citation Machine
• Encyclopedia Britannica — best general resource
• Oxford Reference Online — lots of online dictionaries in science & other fields

• 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
• Technical reports
• Conference proceedings
• Journal articles
• Patents
• Theses/dissertations
• Books/monographs

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

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)

• 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
• • 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!

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 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

• 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
MSN IM: john_dupuis@hotmail.com
You can also friend me or send me a message on Facebook

Also, the Steacie Library now has a FaceBook page! Become a Fan!

For Starters

• 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

• Unlimited free Interlibrary Loan articles via RACER!
• Using the UofT library system
• General library-related Grad student info.

• Scientific publication cycle
• Knee, Michael. Internet Reference Sources for Computing and Computer Science: A Selected Guide. Journal of Library Administration, 44(1/2) 2006: 453-473.
• Some interesting articles/posts on CS scholarly publishing
  • Rebooting the CS Publication Process
  • Confronting the myth of rapid obsolescence in computing research
  • Revisiting the Publication Culture in Computing Research
  • Time for computer science to grow up
  • Open, Closed or Clopen Access?
  • Conferences vs. Journals in Computing Research
• Kinds of documents:
  • patents: government granted license to an invention
  • standards: agreed upon methodology: ie 802.11
  • journals: research results presented in a periodical/magazine
  • conference proceedings: research results presented at a meeting
    (most conferences in CS are peer-reviewed)
  • technical report: description of a solution to a specific problem
  • books
    • reference: encyclopedias, tables, data collections, properties
    • manuals: lab methods, programming languages, operating systems
    • monographs: general topics
  • technical specifications: how a device or component works, ie
    circuit diagrams
  • code library: database of source code listings or linkable
    subroutines
• Peer review: researchers validating each others work before publication
• Academic Integrity & Plagiarism web site.
• If you’re not sure how to get started on your project, come to Steacie.

• 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.

The Library Home Page

Steacie Library Home Page!

• Do a search in The York Catalogue:
  • by title: Concurrent programming in Java : design principles and patterns
  • by author: Bjarne Stroustrup
  • by journal title: journal of the acm
  • by subject: Java
  • by subject: concurrent programming, parallel programming, parallel
    processing
  • by keyword: concurrent and programming and java

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

Article Citation Databases

• INSPEC — best source for citations in all computing fields, best for comprehensive searches (combined with Compendex)
  • concurrent and aerospace and programming
  • concurrent and locking and java

• Web of Science — Very good coverage of all major computing journals, good for citation searches
  • concurrent and locking and java
• Scopus — another good general database with citation information
• ACM Guide to Computing Literature — Another one focusing on computing
• Scholars Portal Journals — very general, lots of obscure journals
• VERY IMPORTANT: look in full text article databases for conference
  proceedings
  • IEEE, ACM or Lecture Notes in Computer Science: look in DBs below
  • SPIE: keyword search in catalogue: SPIE and proceeding #
  • Other: keyword search with part of title
  • Last resort: 50-75% of conference papers usually on author’s home pages
  • Remember, you have 50 free article requests!

Full Text Article Databases

• ACM Digital Library — Best resource: All ACM journals & proceedings
• IEEE Xplore — All IEEE journals & proceedings, more engineering than CS
• SPIE Digital Library — has all the SPIE Proceedings and journals in full text
• Lecture Notes in Computer Science — Also includes LN in Bioinformatics, Mathematics, Physics, and other areas.  Source of articles from various conference proceedings, find citations from Web of Science or INSPEC

Online Computer Books

• Safari — over 200 online computer / technical books on a wide range of subjects.
• Synthesis — amazing collection of CS & Engineering ebooks, more advanced topics
• Books24x7 — EngineeringPro & ITPro

Resources on 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
  • Public Library of Science
  • BioMed Central
  • Hindawi
• Other Open Access resources
  • arxiv
  • Pubmed Central
  • Pubmed Central Canada (CIHR policy)
  • York Space
  • Directory of Open Access Journals
  • Sherpa/Romeo for figuring out publisher OA posting policies

• Using Google as a scholarly research tool:
  • example: concurrent programming
  • example: concurrent programming locking
  • example: concurrent programming locking algorithm
  • example: concurrent programming locking algorithm java
  • strategy: find good portal sites
  • strategy: make sure you know exactly who produced the content

• DBLP — good CS index of free web & many conferences & journals
• Citeseer — indexes the free web but a bit out of date
• Computing Research Repository (CoRR) — eprints and other online papers
• Collection of Computer Science bibliographies
• Google Scholar
• And others…

To contact me:

Office: Steacie 102H
Email: jdupuis@yorku.ca
MSN IM: john_dupuis@hotmail.com
Also I’m on Twitter,  FaceBook and Friendfeed. The Steacie Library is also on Facebook.

For Starters

• 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

• Unlimited free Interlibrary Loan articles via RACER!
• Using the UofT libraries
• General library-related Grad student info.

• Scientific publication cycle

• 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

• 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.

The Library Home Page

Steacie Library Home Page!

• 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.

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

• 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

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

• 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
  • Public Library of Science
  • BioMed Central
  • Hindawi
• 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
Also I’m on Twitter and Friendfeed. The Steacie Library is also on Facebook and Twitter.

FREE Citation Management Software

• 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?

• 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!

• Zotero and Mendeley are other options

• Library Footnotes, Bibliographies, RefWorks page

• Plan B: various style guides & Landmarks Citation Machine

• Need to use Passport York or bar code number & PIN from library card to authenticate as a York user
• Information here on logging in

• Scientific Publication Cycle
• For bibliographies: various style guides & Landmarks Citation Machine
• 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

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
  • ewaste
  • outsourcing

• 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
• • 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 Search is a great tool for finding relevant books
    • outsourcing IT to india
  • Use RACER to borrow books that York doesn’t have!

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

• 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
  

• 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

Office: Steacie 102H
Email: jdupuis@yorku.ca
MSN IM: john_dupuis@hotmail.com
You can also friend me or send me a message on Facebook

Also, the Steacie Library now has a FaceBook page! Become a Fan!

Open Science Presentation

Open Science Presentation

• 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?

• 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

• 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!

• Zotero and Mendeley are other options

• Library Footnotes, Bibliographies, RefWorks page

• Plan B: various style guides & Landmarks Citation Machine

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

• Try this: Coolest thing ever Firefox extension call Libx
  • a cool way to search Scholarsportal article database

• Scientific publication cycle
• 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

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
  • ewaste
  • outsourcing

Do a search in The York Catalogue:

• by title: The citizen-powered energy handbook : community solutions to a global crisis
• by author: pahl greg
• by journal title: Scientific American
• by keyword:
  • outsourcing or offshoring
  • outsourcing and IT
  • outsourcing and information and india
  • outsourcing and india
  • outsourc$ and (information or technology)
  • brain drain or skills drain

• 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 — QA 76.15 E53 2001
• 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 Search is a great tool for finding relevant books
  • outsourcing IT to india
• Use RACER to borrow books that York doesn’t have!

All the article databases are similar. Try searches like those above.

A list of the best databases for general science/development topics

First of all, check out Subject Research Guides for what makes sense for your topic

• Scholars Portal Journals — good source for journal articles
• ABI/Inform and Business Source Premier — full text business databases that let you follow the money
• Sociological Abstracts — search engine,  good for social aspects of technology
• JSTOR — full text of various science & science studies journals, best source for STS articles
• Scholar’s Portal: mostly full text, good general source of articles
• Pubmed — article search engine focused on medical, biomedical and clinical, mostly useful for non-historical topics
• Biological Abstracts — general life science search engine, mostly for non-human biology
• History of Science, Technology & Medicine — most comprehensive and complete source for historical topics, covers books and journals. No full text directly in the database.

• 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

General, Interdisciplinary databases

• Academic OneFile — good general, full text
• Expanded Academic– good general source, good for book reviews, mostly full text
• Research Library — another good general source, lots of full text

• Web of Science — Very good coverage of all humanities & social sciences, good for book reviews & for citation tracking
• Scopus — similar to web of science, but doesn’t cover humanities and social sciences as well

Newspapers.

• Canadian Newsstand — full text newspaper source
• Lexis Nexis Academic — international news coverage

Some sites to check out for Government and NGO information

• World DataBank from the World Bank. Lots of stats, etc.
  • watch for the table/chart options icon to play with output
• SciDev — good site with news & resources on the developing world.
• World Health Organization
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
• SourceOECD — full text OECD database of books & articles
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
• LEAD International — training organization for a sustainable world
• International Institute for Environment and Development
• AccessUN

• York Libraries Government Sources page
• York Libraries Statistical Sources
  

• Science.gov — US portal for science information

Some resources for finding information on specific countries

• Lexis Nexis Academic
  • Go under Reseach Countries, but sources are often a bit old
  • For news, left sidebar Browse sources –>Pick country –>drill down to sources you want
• CIA World Factbook
• US Energy Information Administration
• Libraries’ Energy Statistics Resource Page
• International Energy Agency
• World Competitiveness Yearbook
• BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2010

• Wikipedia — use Wikipedia very critically, more as a source of sources than the final word
  • World Energy Resources and Consumption
  • List of countries by energy consumption per capita

• ScienceBlogs — blog aggregation site for science (good for controversy and commentary)
• Using Google as a scholarly research tool:
  • Find a good portal site
  • remember: who, why and when
• Wikipedia — solid source of links & basic info, not academic or 100% reliable Wikipedia as a starting point. Remember that for a controversial topic there can be a lot of back and forth and “conflict of interest” changes

Office: Steacie 102H
Email: jdupuis@yorku.ca
MSN IM: john_dupuis@hotmail.com
You can also friend me or send me a message on Facebook.

And on FriendFeed & Twitter.

Steacie also has a page on Facebook — become a fan!

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?

• 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

• Unlimited free Interlibrary Loan articles via RACER!
• $300 free printing is available at the Libraries
• Using the UofT libraries
• General library-related Grad student info.

• Scientific publication cycle

• 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

Here are some more specifically government-related resources:

Writers want Ottawa to let scientists ‘speak for themselves’

(and follow up)

General government information webpage and Researching Canadian government policy

Canada

• Canada Research Index — Index of documents, we will have most of them
• Government of Canada Publications Catalogue
• Departments & Agencies, Government of Canada
• National Research Council and library & publications
• NSERC
• Environment Canada
• Fisheries & Oceans
• Natural Resources

• Libraries Government Information Guide
• Canada

USA

• Library page on USA and here.
• Science.gov
• NASA Technical Reports Server
• DoE

The Library Home Page

Steacie Library Home Page!

• Do a search in The York Catalogue:
  • by title: Concurrent programming in Java : design principles and patterns
  • by author: Lightman Bernard

• 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
• Don’t forget to use Advanced Search to  search on publishers & authors for Canadian government!
  • Public Health Agency of Canada.
  • Canada. Environment Canada.
• You can also search on agencies as subjects
  • Canada. » Environment Canada

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

• Canadian Periodical Index
• 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
• 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

• JSTOR — full text of various STS & history of science journals
  • For JSTOR it is important to use Advanced Search and select subject areas
  • Try:
    • Canada // “environment canada” // climate change  — also with Canadian

• Scholars Portal Journals — full text of millions of articles in all fields, a terrific interdisciplinary database
  • “environment canada” // climate change
• Digital Dissertations and at York
• IEEE Xplore — All IEEE journals & proceedings, good historical material on the history of computing

Newspapers

• Canadian Newsstand (don’t forget to search full text)
  • try advanced search: “environment canada” // climate change
• Lexis Nexis Academic
• 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

• 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
  • Public Library of Science
  • BioMed Central
  • Hindawi
• 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:

Office: Steacie 102H
Email: jdupuis@yorku.ca
MSN IM: john_dupuis@hotmail.com
Also I’m on Twitter, FaceBook and Friendfeed. The Steacie Library is also on Facebook.

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?

• 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

• Using the UofT libraries

• Scientific publication cycle

• 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

• 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.

The Library Home Page

Steacie Library Home Page!

• 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

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
Also I’m on Twitter, FaceBook and Friendfeed. The Steacie Library is also on Facebook.

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?

• 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

• For off campus use, get the York group code here.

• 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!

• For bibliographies: various style guides and the Landmark Citation Machine.

• Scientific publication cycle
• Academic Integrity & Plagiarism web site.
• Encyclopedia Britannica — best general resource
• Oxford Reference Online — lots of online dictionaries in science & other fields

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)

Office: Steacie 102H
Email: jdupuis@yorku.ca
MSN IM: john_dupuis@hotmail.com
You can also friend me or send me a message on Facebook.

And on FriendFeed and Twitter.

Steacie also has a page on Facebook and a brand new Twitter account — become a fan!

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?

• 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!

• Zotero and Mendeley are other options

• Library Footnotes, Bibliographies, RefWorks page

• Plan B: various style guides & Landmarks Citation Machine

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

• Try this: Coolest thing ever Firefox extension call Libx
  • a cool way to search Scholarsportal article database

• Scientific publication cycle
• For bibliographies: various style guides & Landmarks Citation Machine
• 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

My topic: role of Rosalind Franklin in discovering DNA

• pick a topic that interests you
• narrow your topic
• get a angle/perspective
• have a plan B (autism/vaccine connection or eugenics in Canada) (Huffington Post)

Do a search in The York Catalogue:

• by title: The citizen-powered energy handbook : community solutions to a global crisis
• by author: pahl greg
• by journal title: Scientific American
• by keyword:
  • rosalind franklin
  • dna and history
  • genetics and history
  • biology and history
  • james watson
  • rosalind franklin and james watson
  • autism
  • autism and mercury
  • autism and vaccines

• Scholars Portal eBooks — more 1000s or ebooks.  Don’t forget to search with Full Text checked
• Give Google Books Search a try to find more obscure topics! don’t forget, you can borrow books we don’t have via Racer

All the article databases are similar. Try searches like these.

• rosalind franklin
• dna and history
• genetics and history
• biology and history
• james watson
• rosalind franklin and james watson
• rosalind franklin and dna and history and watson
• autism and mercury and vaccines

A list of the best databases for general science topics

• Scholars Portal Journals — good general source with full text
• JSTOR — full text of various science & science studies journals, best source for STS articles
• Pubmed — article search engine focused on medical, biomedical and clinical, mostly useful for non-historical topics
• Biological Abstracts — general life science search engine, mostly for non-human biology
• History of Science, Technology & Medicine — most comprehensive and complete source for historical topics, covers books and journals.  No full text directly in the database.
• Academic OneFile — good general, full text
• Expanded Academic– good general source, good for book reviews, mostly full text
• Research Libray — another good general source, lots of full text
• Web of Science — Very good coverage of all humanities & social sciences, good for book reviews & for citation tracking

Newspapers

• 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

• Canadian Newsstand — Canadian newspaper articles
• Lexis Nexis Academic — good international newspaper coverage

• Toronto Star, 1894-2004
• Globe and Mail, 1884-2002

• York Libraries Newspapers page

• ScienceBlogs — blog aggregation site for science (good for controversy and commentary)
• Using Google as a scholarly research tool:
  • Find a good portal site
  • remember: who, why and when
• Wikipedia — solid source of links & basic info, not academic or 100% reliable Wikipedia as a starting point. Remember that for a controversial topic there can be a lot of back and forth and “conflict of interest” changes

Office: Steacie 102H
Email: jdupuis@yorku.ca
MSN IM: john_dupuis@hotmail.com
You can also friend me or send me a message on Facebook.

And on FriendFeed.

Steacie also has a page on Facebook — become a fan!