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!

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.

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?

• 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

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!

• FAQ and Instructions for various databases
• RefWorks Tutorial
• Plan B: various style guides & Landmark Citation Machine

My topic: local food or solar power and carbon footprint

Some footprint calculators:

• Nature Conservancy
• US EPA
• Lifestyle Carbon Calculator
• Flight Emissions Calculator
• Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator
• Environment Canada list of calculators
• Water Consumption Calculator
• Eat Low Carbon Diet Calculator (Is My Lunch Causing Global Warming?)

Some Recommended Links

• Environment Canada
• US Environmental Protection Agency
• UN Food & Agriculture
• City of Toronto (Environmental Portal)
• Environmental News Network
• LCA Links
• Electricity System Operator
• Ontario Power Generation
• Canada Food Guide

• 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:
    • local and food
    • locavore
    • local food and carbon footprint
    • carbon footprint and power usage
    • carbon footprint and power minimization
    • carbon footprint and transit
    • solar cell and efficiency
    • solar power and cost savings
    • solar power and carbon footprint
  • Google Books Searchis a great way to search inside the contents of books, many of which might be at York
    • don’t forget, you can borrow books we don’t have via Racer
  • Scholars Portal eBooks — a great big pile of ebooks
  • Books 24×7 — 1000′s of technology & engineering ebooks, usually something for every topic

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

• all the databases are similar, so try searches like these
  • local and food
  • locavore
  • local food and carbon footprint
  • carbon footprint and food
  • embodied energy and (manufacturing or food or transportation or biofuels)
  • energy intensity and automobile
  • carbon footprint and transportation
  • solar cell and efficiency
  • solar power and cost savings
  • solar power and carbon footprint

General Resources Useful for all Topics

• Scholars Portal Journals — lots of full text, very good general source. choose technology option
• 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, mostly full text
• Web ofScience– Very good coverage of all area of science & history of science
  • can choose book review as document type at bottom of General Search page
  • one of the best for scholarly book reviews
• Newspapers:
  • Canadian Newsstand — Canadian newspaper articles, periodicals only
  • Lexis Nexis Academic — good international newspaper coverage
  • Newspapers resource page

• Using Googleas 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

• Google Scholar
  • issues: currency (don’t update often), comprehensiveness (won’t say what isn’t in their database)
• 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

Office: Steacie 102H
Email: sshujah@yorku.ca

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

• 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
• 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 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

My topic:

• ground penetrating radar
  
• plus some ideas on musical instruments and concert halls, etc.
  

• 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:
    • ground penetrating radar
    • ground penetrating radar and landmines
    • ground penetrating radar and (landmine or land mine)
    • acoustic and design
    • sound and recording and engineering
  • Google Books Searchis a great way to search inside the contents of books, many of which might be at York
    • concert hall and acoustics
  • don’t forget, you can borrow books we don’t have via Racer
  • Books 24×7 — 1000′s of technology & engineering ebooks, usually something for every topic
  • Scholars Portal eBooks– wide range of topics covered
    • lots of books on acoustics

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

• all the databases are similar, so try searches like these
  • ground penetrating radar
  • ground penetrating radar and mars
  • architecture and acoutics
  • acoustic and design
  • concert hall and acoustics and design
  • sound and recording and engineering

General Resources Useful for all Topics

• Scholars Portal Journals — lots of full text
• Google Scholar — a good resource for the various concert hall/musical instrument questions
• Expanded Academic & Research Library — good general sources, mostly full text
• IEEE Xplore — full text engineering database with lots of good content
• ABI/Inform & Business Source Premier — excellent business coverage, mostly full text
• Web ofScience– Very good coverage of all area of science & history of science
  • can choose book review as document type at bottom of General Search page
  • one of the best for scholarly book reviews
• Newspapers:
  • Canadian Newsstand– Canadian newspaper articles, periodicals only
    • concert hall and acoustics
  • Lexis Nexis Academic — good international newspaper coverage, can find information on concert halls, etc, in news coverage
  • Newspapers resource page

• Using Googleas 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

• Google Scholar
  • issues: currency (don’t update often), comprehensiveness (won’t say what isn’t in their database)
• 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

Office: Steacie 102H
Email: sshujah@yorku.ca

You can also friend me or send me a message on Facebook

And on FriendFeed and Twitter.

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

• 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

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!

• 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
• 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: science and religion –> Scopes trial

My topic: astrolabes

• pick a topic that interests you
• narrow your topic
• get a angle/perspective
• have a plan B

Do a search in The York Catalogue:

• by title: Evolution vs. creationism : an introduction
• by author: Scott Eugenie
• by journal title: Scientific American
• by subject: religion
• by subject: religion and science
• by keyword:
  • religion and science
  • darwin and religion
  • evolution and religion
  • scopes and trial
  • astrolabes
  • astronomical equipment
  • scientific instruments

• Books 24×7: great engineering, technology and business ebooks
• 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

• • Scopes trial transcript
  • dover intelligent design trial transcript

All the article databases are similar. Try searches like these. More info on various subjects on the Find Articles by Subject page.

• religion and science
• darwin and religion
• evolution and creationism
• evolution and religion
• scopes and trial
• dover and trial

Primary vs. Secondary Sources

• Primary (science): Scientists describing their own experiments for other scientists.  Usually in journals or conferences.  Peer review is an important concept.
• Secondary sources: Social scientists or humanists writing about the social/historical/philosophical/etc context of science & scientists.   Social  Studies of Science, Science & Technology Studies, History & Philosophy of Science.

A list of the best databases for general science topics

• Scholars portal journals — huge multidisciplinary database of articles
• Scholars Portal Search — interdisciplinary/aggregated bibliographic database
• Sociological Abstracts — best for sociology
• JSTOR — full text of various sociology, history & history of science journals
• Expanded Academic & Research Library — good general sources, mostly full text
• Historical Abstracts — Indexes major journals in history.
• Canadian Newsstand — good newspaper coverage
• Toronto Star, Globe and Mail and New York Times deep archives (all 100+ years).
• Web of Science — Very good coverage of all academic fields, good for book reviews & for citation tracking
• Biological Abstracts & Pubmed — life sciences
• PsycInfo — psychology and neurosciences
• INSPEC, Compendex & IEEE — physics, engineering & computer science
• MathSciNet — math
• Business Source Premier & ABI Inform — business database, follow the money
• History of Science, Technology & Medicine — most advanced, but best choice for history of science topics, finds books and articles
• Art & Architecture resources page
• History & Philosophy of ST resources page
• Sociology Resources page

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 (off campus)
• Globe and Mail, 1884-2002 (off campus)

• York Libraries Newspapers page

• ScienceBlogs — blog aggregation site for science
• 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
  • Evolution vs. creationism
  • Scopes trial
  • Dover trial
• Biologists helping bookstores

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!

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?

• 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

My topic: Are biofuels good for the environment

Source: Green Metropolis by David Owen

Also: books by Richard Dawkins

Backup plan: shipping industry and recycling old ships

• 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 subject: fuel cells
  • by keyword:
  • biofuel*
  • biodiesel
  • biofuel and economics
  • biofuel and (efficiency or viability)
  • biofuel and efficiency and carbon footprint
• Google Books Search is a great way to search inside the contents of books, many of which might be at York
  don’t forget, you can borrow books we don’t have via Racer
• Books 24×7 — 1000′s of technology & engineering ebooks, most environmental subjects are covered
• Scholars Portal eBooks — more 1000s or ebooks.
  Don’t forget to search with Full Text checked

Finding book reviews

• Library Guide to finding book reviews
• Book Review Index
• Book Review Digest
• Web of Science
• Lexis Nexis Academic

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

• all the databases are similar, so try searches like these

• ethanol
  • ethanol and production
  • biofuels and efficiency
  • biofuels and cost
  • biodiesel and food and cost
  • (biodiesel or biofuel*) and cost and corn
  • ethanol and cost and corn

General Resources Useful for all Topics

• Scholars Portal Journals — lots of full text, very good general source. choose technology option
• Expanded Academic & Research Library — good general sources, mostly full text
• IEEE Xplore — full text engineering database with lots of good content
• ABI/Inform & Business Source Premier — excellent business coverage, mostly full text
• Web of  Science — Very good coverage of all area of science & history of science.  Good for book reviews.
• JSTOR — good for scholarly book  reiviews
• Newspapers — most have book review sections
  • Canadian Newsstand — Canadian newspaper articles, periodicals only
  • Lexis Nexis Academic –  good  US & international coverage
  • Canadian Periodical Index — good for magazines & periodicals
  • CBCA Complete — very good Canadian business 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
  • example: waste to energy
• Wikipedia — a free, open source encyclopedia. Surprisingly good for background info but not for more serious reference

• Google Scholar
  • issues: currency (don’t update often), comprehensiveness (won’t say what isn’t in their database)
• 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

Office: Steacie 102H
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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?

• 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

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!

• FAQ and Instructions for various databases
• RefWorks Tutorial
• Plan B: various style guides & Landmark 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
• 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 in the IT industry, pros & cons

• 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 — 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

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 castell
  • outsourcing and barney
  • outsourcing and terranova
  • barney and global and network
  • barney and labor and technology
  • 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
  • (outsourcing or offshoring) and software development

Journals & magazines.

• Scholars Portal Journals — good source for journal articles
• ABI/Inform & Business Source Premier — mostly full text, for the business perspective
• Sociological Abstracts — search engine,  good for social aspects of technology
• Communications Abstracts & Communications and Mass Media Complete — search engines more geared to communications studies.
• 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

Government Documents

• York Libraries Government Sources page
• StatsCan (database)
• OECD
• UNESCO
• AccessUN

Newspapers.

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

• 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 and a Twitter account! Become a Fan!

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

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!

• FAQ and Instructions for various databases
• RefWorks Tutorial
• Plan B: various style guides & Landmark 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:  history of cryptography, Alan Turing, Bletchley Park, enigma machine

• pick a topic that interests you
• narrow your topic
• get a angle/perspective
• have a plan B (ENIAC)

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:
• Google Book Search is a great tool for finding relevant books
  • alan turing crytography bletchley part
• RACER to get books we don’t have, which may be somewhat more important for this course. It usually only takes a couple of days to get the book if another ON university has it.

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

• crytography and history
• bletchley part
• turing and codebreaking
• turing and enigma
• enigma machine
• codes and u-boat

A list of the best databases for general science topics

**Remember, the age of the article isn’t that important for historical topics

• 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
• IEEE Xplore — has the Annals of the History of Computing.
• ACM Digital Library — good technical information, some historical info
• History of Science, Technology & Medicine — most comprehensive and complete source for historical topics, covers books and journals. No full text directly in the database.
• Research Libray — another good general source, lots of full text, somewhat better for history
• Academic OneFile — good general, full text
• Expanded Academic– good general source, good for book reviews, mostly full text
• Web of Science — Very good coverage of all humanities & social sciences, good for book reviews & for citation tracking
• Scopus — good general coverage, decent in humanities & social sciences

Newspaper Archives (use OR in the searches!)

• Lexis Nexis Acadmic – best overall international news source, but doesn’t have deep archives for most newspapers
• Canadian Newsstand — good Cdn newspaper coverage
• New York Times (1851 – )
• Globe and Mail (1844 – )
• Toronto Star (1894 – )

• 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!