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.

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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.
  • 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

• 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 notable science people:

• Isaac Asimov
• Edward O. Wilson
• Norman Bethune
• Aldous Huxley

Hint: use Wikipedia to get ideas about what their main issues/themes are in relation to science & society

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:
  • isaac asimov and laws of robotics
  • asimov and society
  • bethune and china
  • bethune and communism
• Google Books Search — good choice to find books by more obscure people, also lots of older material is public domain
  • RACER to get books we don’t have. It usually only takes a couple of days to get the book if another ON university has it.

• Scholars Portal eBooks — a great big pile of ebooks

Note: Some good article strategies:

• Look for articles both by and about your person
• could be magazine, newspaper or journal articles
• If you find one good book or journal article source about your person but are having trouble find something by her, you should check out the references/bibliography section of the sources you do have
• The Wikepedia article may also have good sources

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

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

• Scholar’s Portal Journals:  full text, good general source of articles

• Web of Science –Good selection of science articles, most with links to full text
• Scopus — similar to web of science

• IEEE Xplore — full text engineering database

• JSTOR — good full text, better for historical topics
  • Remember: don’t use basic search, advanced only!

• Canadian Periodical Index — good source for contemporary Canadian figures as well as for magazine & journal articles
• Expanded Academic and Academic Onefile — good general sources for journals & magazines

Newspapers

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

• 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

• Toronto Star, 1894-2004 (off campus)
• Globe and Mail, 1884-2002 (off campus)

• York Libraries Newspapers page

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Email: jdupuis@yorku.ca
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