• 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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• 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

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