Fun Stuff

• 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?

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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

• Steacie RefWorks site

• Don’t forget to install Write&Cite plugin on your PC!
• For off campus use, get the York group code here.
• FAQ and Instructions for various databases
• RefWorks Tutorial
• 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

• Scientific publication cycle
• Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy — fantastic resource!
• Encyclopedia Britannica — best general resource
• Oxford Reference Online — lots of online dictionaries in science & other fields

My topic:  natural selection

Sometimes it might help to add a search term to help you narrow down,  like: birds, mammals, environmental

• pick a topic that interests you
• narrow your topic
• get a angle/perspective
• be aware of controversial topics,  ie  irreducible complexity
• have a plan B

• Scientific American (1948-2010) — good source for magazine articles
• Canadian Newsstand — Canadian newspapers
• Lexis Nexis Academic — international newspaper coverage
• Toronto Star, Globe and Mail and New York Times deep archives (all 100+ years).

A list of the best databases for general science topics

• Scholars Portal Journals — best source for full text science articles
• Biological Abstracts — like Google for biology
• Scopus — more general science resources

• In the context of web context: How to check out any Web page — interesting post by journalist Scott Rosenberg with some tips & tricks on using web sources
• ScienceBlogs — blog aggregation site for science, good source of science news & informal commentary
• ScienceSeeker & ScienceBlogging.org — science blog agggregation sites
• ResearchBlogging.org — scientists (mostly) blogging about peer-reviewed research
• Futurity — a site that aggregates research university press release-type information
• Using Google as a scholarly research tool:
  • remember: who, why and when
  • What is the source, what are the credentials of the author, potential biases, currency, academic or popular
• Wikipedia — Wikipedia does link to other websites that you can use

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