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FREE Citation Management Software
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My topic: local food or solar power
- 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 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, 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 transportation
- solar cell and efficiency
- solar power and cost savings
- solar power and carbon footprint
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:
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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
- 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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