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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 waste disposal (i.e. incineration, landfilling or some other method of disposal but NOT recycling), published during your birth month. One each from the 2000’s and one from before that.
- 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
- You should search on terms like
- landfill or dump site or municipal dump
- incinerator or incineration
- barge and ( garbage or waste or debris) and (ocean or sea or harbor)
- Newspaper Archives (use OR in the searches!)
- 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
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
- Expanded Academic & Research Library — good general sources, mostly full text
- Scholars Portal — 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
- 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 (really important for this assignment):
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Using the Internet Wisely
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- 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
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