• 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!

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!

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

• Scientific publication cycle
• For bibliographies: various style guides and the Landmark Citation Machine.
• Academic Integrity & Plagiarism web site.
• Encyclopedia Britannica — best general resource
• Oxford Reference Online — lots of online dictionaries in science & other fields

My topic: Kepler Space Telescope

• 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

• Helps get up to speed on a topic
• Do a search in The York Catalogue:
  • by title: Cost-effective space mission operations
  • by author: Boden Daryl G.
  • by journal title: Scientific American
  • by keyword:
    • telescopes
    • observatories and history
    • telescopes and history
  • New Best Friend for finding information inside books: Googe Book Search
    • kepler and nasa and telescope
  • For ordering/borrowing books we don’t have: RACER.
• Ebooks!
  • Scholars Portal ebook site
    • Don’t forget to click Full Text Only

• Journal & conference articles give cutting edge, peer reviewed information
  on most topics
• Some searches:

• telescopes
• observatories and history
• telescopes and history
• kepler and telescope
• kepler and nasa
• kepler and nasa and mission

• Science.gov — source of US government reports and articles
• NASA Technical Reports Server
• NASA Astrophysics Data System — master source of astronomy articles.  Doesn’t directly tie into York proxy server so might have to dig to fnd articles off campus
• List of Space Agencies
• JStor — good source of history of science full text
  • Use Advanced Search with categories checked off!!!
• Scholars Portal journals — good general source for mostly full text article
• Web of Science — very good general resources, all the main journals
• Google Scholar — good general source
• Expanded Academic — general
• Research Library — Good general source for journal & magazine articles
• Canadian Newsstand — full text of many Canadian newspapers for the last several years, good for news reports about various topics, can find interesting news coverage for this kind of topic
• Lexis Nexis Academic — international newspaper coverage
• Also deep archives of some papers (try New York Times!):
  • Toronto Star
  • Globe and Mail
  • New York Times

• Wikipedia: a treasure trove of technical information, created by a community. Not edited or reviewed,so may not be complete or accurate. Tech topics tend to be pretty good.

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

Don’t forget to become a fan of the Steacie Library or follow on Twitter.!

Just for fun

• Study like a scholar, scholar
• 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

• 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

• For bibliographies: various style guides & Landmarks Citation Machine
• Academic Integrity and Plagiarism site and quiz.
• Encyclopedia Britannica — best general resource

• Oxford Reference Online — lots of online dictionaries in science & other fields

Scientific publication cycle

• Science is a journal culture
• journals are usually the only type of communications that is peer reviewed
• Peer review: research is verified by other scholars before it is published
• broad disciplinary groupings
  • earth science
  • space science
  • life science
  • medicine
  • physical science
  • computer science
  • mathematics & statistics
  • applied science / engineering
• different disciplines can have different ways of doing things
  • ie. computer science is conference-based
  • patents & standards are very important for engineering
  • science is also becoming increasingly computationally oriented

Types of documents

• journal articles
• conference proceedings
• preprint/postprint/eprint
• monographs
• books
• patents
• standards
• technical reports
• property data
• data collections
• computer code
• now — wikis, blogs, twitter, social networks

Economics of scholarly publishing

• cost of journals is very high
• but journals are tied into rewards system in science
• openness is becoming increasingly valued
• but still hard to change
• open access — various business models for science
• open data, open notebook, open source

My topics: alternative energy sources — biofuels: are they worth it

• pick a topic that interests you
• narrow your topic
• get a angle/perspective
• have a plan B (science & religion: teaching creationism in schools)

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 subject: Renewable energy sources
• by subject: biomass energy
• by keyword:
  • biofuel*
  • biodiesel
  • biofuel and economics
  • biofuel and (efficiency or viability)
  • biofuel and efficiency and carbon footprint
  • science and religion
  • science and creationism and education
  • creationism and evolution and high school
  • scopes trial
• Google Books Search — lets you search inside books for obscure topics
  • 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.
• Books 24×7 is a very comprehensive ebooks package, good for technology topics
• Scholars Portal eBooks:  great big pile of ebooks, good general resource

All the article databases are similar. 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

A list of the best databases for general science topics

• Scholar’s Portal Journals:  full text, good general source of articles
• Scientific American: good for commentary from scientists about controversial topics — but make sure it’s by scientists!
• Scopus — good complement to Scholars Portal — not completely full text but covers a broader range
• IEEE Xplore — full text engineering database

• JSTOR — good full text, better for finding sociological, historical or philosophical takes on scientific topics
  • Remember: don’t use basic search, advanced only!

• ABI/Inform & Business Source Premier — business databases with lots of relevant information for most science & society topics

• 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
  • Biofuel
  • Biodiesel
  • Biogas

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 Twitter account– become a fan!

Just for fun

• Study like a scholar, scholar
• 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

• For bibliographies: various style guides & Landmarks Citation Machine
• Academic Integrity and Plagiarism site and quiz.
• Encyclopedia Britannica — best general resource

• Oxford Reference Online — lots of online dictionaries in science & other fields

My topic:  alternative energy sources — biofuels: are they worth it

• pick a topic that interests you
• narrow your topic
• get a angle/perspective
• have a plan B (science & religion: teaching creationism in schools)

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 subject: Renewable energy sources
• by subject: biomass energy
• by keyword:
  • biofuel*
  • biodiesel
  • biofuel and economics
  • biofuel and (efficiency or viability)
  • biofuel and efficiency and carbon footprint
  • science and religion
  • science and creationism and education
  • creationism and evolution and high school
  • scopes trial
  • scopes and trial
  • creationism and trials
• Google Books Search — lets you search inside books for obscure topics
  • 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.
• Books 24×7 is a very comprehensive ebooks package

• Scholars Portal eBooks — a great big pile of ebooks

All the article databases are similar. 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
• scopes and trial and bryan
• trial and evolution and school

A list of the best databases for general science topics

• Scholar’s Portal Journals: full text, good general source of articles
• Scopus — good complement to Scholars Portal — not completely full text but covers a broader range
• IEEE Xplore — full text engineering database

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

• Academic OneFile — good general, full text
• Expanded Academic– good general source, good for book reviews, mostly full text
• Canadian Periodical Index — good for Canadian content
• ABI/Inform & Business Source Premier — business databases with lots of relevant information for most science & society topics
• Web of Science — Very good coverage of all humanities & social sciences, good for book reviews & for citation tracking

Newspapers — can often find primary historical sources

• 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

• 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
  • Biofuel
  • Biodiesel
  • Biogas

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 Twitter account– become a fan!

• 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

• Scientific publication cycle
• For bibliographies: various style guides and the Landmark Citation Machine. (This search)
• Academic Integrity & Plagiarism web site.
• Encyclopedia Britannica — best general resource
• Oxford Reference Online — lots of online dictionaries in science & other fields

• 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

• My topic: drug interactions & colour vision
  • sildenafil citrate & parkinson’s drugs
• Backup topic: colour blindness & traffic safety

Helps get up to speed on a topic

• Do a search in The York Catalogue:
  • by keyword
    • colour vision or color vision
    • color deficiency
    • color vision or color deficiency
    • drug interactions
    • drug interactions and vision
    • parkinson’s and drug interactions
• Best resource to find niche topic books: Google Book Search
  • find book in GBS & then check to see if York has it!
  • Use RACER if we don’t.
• Ebooks!
  • Scolars Portal eBooks — a great big pile of ebooks
  • Books 24×7 is a very comprehensive ebooks package but only of limited use for this topic

• Journal & conference articles give cutting edge, peer reviewed information on most topics

• Scholars Portal Journals — good general source for mostly full text articles.

• Pubmed — good for medical and health topics, but not as easy to find full text

• Research Library — Good general source for journal & magazine articles, maybe too general for this assignment
• Expanded Academic — general

• Biological Abstracts — specifically for biology
• Web of Science and Scopus — very good general resources, all the main journals
• Google Scholar — good general source

• 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

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

Don’t forget to become a fan of the Steacie Library!

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

• Scientific publication cycle
• For bibliographies: various style guides and the Landmark Citation Machine. (This search)
• Academic Integrity & Plagiarism web site.
• Encyclopedia Britannica — best general resource
• Oxford Reference Online — lots of online dictionaries in science & other fields

• 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

• My topic: Mars mission

• Background: Wikipedia

• some important considerations
  • vehicle: type, fuel, return?
  • psychology of long trips
  • Martian environment
  • sustainable food production/biosphere considerations
    • trip & colony
  • physical effects of prolonged exposure to low gravity
  • what’s been learned from Mars analogue mission on Earth
  • Crew make-up
    • lessons from reality tv?
    • group dynamics/psychology

• Helps get up to speed on a topic
• Do a search in The York Catalogue:
  • by title: Cost-effective space mission operations
  • by author: Boden Daryl G.
  • by journal title: Scientific American
  • by keyword
    • mars analog
    • mars and biosphere
    • earth and biosphere
    • mars and mission
    • mars and colony
    • mars and life
    • space and mission and design
    • space and vehicle
    • vehicle and mars and mission
    • space mission and psychology
    • space mission and group dynamics
    • isolation and (group dynamics or psychology)
    • space and mission and low gravity and effects
• Best resource to find niche topic books: Google Book Search
  • find book in GBS & then check to see if York has it!
  • Use RACER if we don’t.
• Ebooks!
  • Scolars Portal eBooks — a great big pile of ebooks
  • Books 24×7 is a very comprehensive ebooks package but only of limited use for this topic
  • Knovel — reference/property data.  Also has live equations and interative graphs

• Journal & conference articles give cutting edge, peer reviewed information
  on most topics
• Some searches:
  • mars analog
  • mars and biosphere
  • earth and biosphere
  • mars and mission
  • mars and colony
  • mars and life
  • space and mission and design
  • space and vehicle
  • vehicle and mars and mission
  • space mission and psychology
  • space mission and group dynamics
  • isolation and (group dynamics or psychology)
  • space and mission and low gravity and effects

• Scholars Portal Journals — good general source for mostly full text articles.
• IEEE Xplore — general engineering full text database, surprisingly good for this topic
• NASA Technical Reports Server — yes, they’re thinking about Mars missions
  • Mars mission
• Research Library — Good general source for journal & magazine articles, maybe too general for this assignment
• Expanded Academic — general
• ABI/Inform &Business Source Premier — good full text from business
  journals

• Biological Abstracts — specifically for biology
• Web of Science — very good general resources, all the main journals
• Google Scholar — good general source

• Canadian Newsstand — full text of many Canadian newspapers for the last several years, good for news reports about various topics, can find interesting news coverage for this kind of topic
• Also deep archives of some papers (try New York Times!):
  • Toronto Star
  • Globe and Mail
  • New York Times

• NASA
  • Technical Reports Server
  • NASA STIHomepage
  • NASA History Office
• Wikipedia: a treasure trove of technical information, created by a community. Not edited or reviewed,so may not be complete or accurate. Tech topics tend to be pretty good.
• TechXtra — good free search engine

• 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
  • Extremophile
  • Galapagos Islands

• 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

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FREE Citation Management Software

• RefWorks site (Login) can help you manage your footnotes & bibliography on the web. Easy to use, interfaces directly with MS Word to create footnotes & bibliographies
• For off campus use, get the York group code here.
• FAQ and Instructions for various databases
• RefWorks Tutorial
• Plan B: various style guides & Landmarks Citation Machine

My topic: Toronto incinerator project

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

• Find 2 newspaper or magazine articles on wastewater management (i.e. incineration, landfilling or some other method of disposal but NOT recycling), published during your birth month. One each from the 2000-2010 and one from before 2000.
• Search on terms like:
  • wastewater or waste water
  • water and sewage
  • waste and water
  • water and mining
  • sewers or sewage
  • pulp and water
  • industrial and water
  • water and filtration
  • sewage and filtration
  • Wikipedia article is a good source of vocabulary for searching
• Cite them properly and give a short summary.
• You will be submitting it through moodle as online text under the assignment ‘library presentation’. You should give the title of the article 1, the summary, then the citation of the article, then the same for article two.
• Me: My birth month is October

• Newspaper Archives (use OR in the searches!) (2005, 1962, 2005))
  • Lexis Nexis Acadmic — best overall news source, but doesn’t have deep archives for most newspapers
  • New York Times (1851 – )
  • Globe and Mail (1844 – )
  • Toronto Star (1894 – )

• 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:
    • incinerators
    • incinerator or incineration
    • waste and disposal
    • incineration and environmental
    • incineration and impact
  • 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

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
  • waste to energy
  • incinerators
  • incinerator or incineration
  • waste and disposal
  • incineration and environmental
  • incineration and impact
  • toronto and incineration
  • toronto and waste and disposal
  • toronto and (incineration or incinerator) and (impact or consequences)
  • (incinerator or incineration) and waste and emissions and toronto
  • incineration and environmental impact
  • incineration and pollution

General Resources Useful for all Topics

• Scholars Portal — 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 ofScience — Very good coverage of all area of science & history of science
• Newspapers (really important for this assignment):
  • Canadian Newsstand — Canadian newspaper articles, periodicals only
  • Lexis Nexis Academic
  • 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
  • incineration
  • waste to energy

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

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

Just for fun

• Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the earth yet?

• 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
• 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: acetylcholine (neurotransmitter / snake venom)

1. Print encyclopedia article: do a search in The York Catalogue:

• Keyword search on something like:
  • (brain or neuro$) and encyclopedia
  • chem$ and encyclopedia
  • $ is the wildcard character: chemistry, chemical, chemicals
• can find the books at Steacie or sometimes at Scott (for psych)

2. Find a Wikipedia article.

3. Find an article / web page from a university, association or research institute

• Use Google and look for .edu or .org
• always make sure you know exactly who is behind the site

Review articles are summaries of recent scholarship in a field or topic area. The usually reference a lot of older articles.

The two best tools for this assignment are:

• Web of Science
  • can either do a basic search and narrow to review articles or
  • do an advanced search and restrict to review articles
    • syntax is a little weird here: ie TS=acetylcholine
• Scopus
  • for basic search you can limit to document type “review” or you can search then “limit to”

The both cover chemistry and neuroscience quite well, have links to lots of review articles and provide automatics tracking of citations for articles

Office: Steacie 102H
Email: jdupuis@yorku.ca
MSN IM: john_dupuis@hotmail.com
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