February 13, 2012

2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Harry Crowe Room (109 Atkinson)

This event is part of a research support series:
Managing Research Data & Communicating Research Findings

Panelists include:

• Andrea Kosavic, Digital Initiatives Librarian

• William Denton, Web Librarian, Data repositories, e-sharing options, and academic search engine optimization

• Omar Mohammed, Manager, Research Computing, Exploring the world of collaborative workspaces

• Walter Giesbrecht, Data Librarian,Dataverse: a tool for managing, maintaining and sharing research data

• Carolyn Heald, Director, Information and Privacy Office

Staying grounded:

• Privacy and data security considerations for researchers using cloud tools

All are welcome to attend. RSVP is not required.

Research Support Series -Session2

For more information contact:
Breanne Whitwell, Research Officer, Faculty of Education
Tel: 416-736-2100 ext. 77363

http://edu.yorku.ca/research/index.html

Sponsored by:
The Faculty of Education
The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
York University Libraries

The current interface will be retired at the end of 2011.  In preparation for this change, York University Libraries will be switching the default for all users to the new interface on August 29, 2011.  The old interface will remain available until December.  The change to the new interface will not affect any of your citation data.  All settings for shared folders will remain in place.

More information about the RefWorks 2.0 is available at http://www.refworks-cos.com/RefWorks2.0/.  If you have any questions about this change, please don’t hesitate to contact any York University Libraries reference desk (http://www.library.yorku.ca/ccm/Home/ResearchAndInstruction/in-person-help) or e-mail refworks@yorku.ca.

Steacie Library is now loaning out an iPad (click for Call number) along with the other unique materials they have available to borrow (including an iPod Touch, a Sony eReader, a Chess set and more). The iPad comes loaded with apps such The Elements, flashcard creators, Pages, anatomy study aids,  (click for a full list) but you can also feel free to add your own content. You will be able to check out the iPad for up to 3 days at a time. It can be picked up at the Steacie Library Circulation desk.

If you have any requests for applications or any questions please contact Steacie Library at steacref@yorku.ca.

I just found out there is also a Readability extension for Firefox. If you’re a Firefox user, I highly recommend it. When you’re looking at a blog post, article, or whatever, you can either click the little R button or press Ctrl-Alt-r and the web page will change into the no-ad no-cruft version and be instantly more readable.

For example, here’s a Lifehacker article, Keep Your Eyes on Their Feet to Cut Through Crowds Like Butter, before and after:

Before

You can’t even see the text of the post, there’s so much stuff on the page! But watch what happens when you turn on Readability:

After

It’s a great little tool to cut out distractions when you need to focus!

We are currently evaluating the features and ways that RefWorks is used. Please help by filling out a short survey.

Responses are anonymous and the survey takes about 15 minutes.

Go to the survey.

What is RefWorks?

RefWorks is citation management software available to you at your University. It can automatically generate bibliographies/reference lists in over 800 citation styles such as MLA, APA, and Turabian. Using RefWorks, you can create an online database of citations to books, articles, websites and more. We are currently evaluating the features and ways that RefWorks is used.

posted on behalf of Rob van der Bliek.

The Find it @ York button that appears in many of our databases has a new and cleaner look.  If you’ve seen this button before but have never used it, click on it to give it a try.  If you see a citation to an article, book, thesis or any other type of document that you’re interested in accessing, it can:

• Connect you to any online full-text content available through the York U Libraries’ subscriptions.
• Search the library catalogue to see if York U Libraries owns an item of interest in print.
• If the item is not available in the Libraries, provides you with an option to have it borrowed through Resource Sharing (more details here).
• Connect you to more information about the item.  For example, do you ever wonder if a journal is scholarly or peer-reviewed (refereed)?  Find it @ York can link you to Ulrich’s Periodical Directory where that sort of information can be found.

Find it @ York will also allow you to access help.  York U Libraries’ Ask a Librarian service connects you by chat to a librarian (more details here).  And, as hard as we try to make sure they never occur, technical problems do pop up when managing millions of items online and in print.  So, if you run into any technical problems, let us know by sending feedback and we’ll get the problem fixed.

The YUL LibX toolbar plugs you into the library from anywhere on the Web. You can right-click and quickly perform a "context menu" search, or drag and drop terms straight onto the toolbar, instantly searching the YUL library catalogue or eResources from the comfort of your browser. If you’re searching Google or another library catalogue you’ll find the ISBN becomes a hyperlink to the YUL catalogue. You can immediately see if the book is in the collection and if it’s available to borrow.

You’ll also start seeing the embedded cues such as the York University icon and the "Find It @ York" button appearing on web pages at Wikipedia, Amazon and anywhere else that refers you to a potential library resource. Want to give it a try? Download and install it with just a couple of clicks > and bring your library to the Web!

F. Tim Knight

For the YUL Emerging Technology Interest Group.

This tutorial will introduce you to RefWorks, a web-based bibliographic management tool (citation manager) that allows you to create a database of citations or references to resources (books, journal articles, web sites, etc.). It facilitates the insertion of citations within a research paper as in-text references, footnotes, or endnotes, and the creation of a formatted bibliography using a citation style of choice. All major citation styles are supported (e.g., APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.).