• 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!

• 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!