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Graduate Orientation: Physical Sciences & Engineering

Come to Taylor Library's Graduate Orientation for the Physical Sciences & Engineering where you will learn about literature searching and managing citations, as well as take a tour of the library!

Where:   Kellogg Room, The Allyn & Betty Taylor Library, Natural Sciences Centre

When:    **Please plan to attend one session as the same content will be presented at each**

  • Friday, May 11th 12:30pm - 1:30pm
  • Tuesday, May 15th 12:30pm - 1:30pm

Please register here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7QKM7P9 

 To learn about:

Literature Searching

Literature Review tutorial (help us evaluate this tutorial)

  1. Information Sources 

  • Program Guides: Find articles in recommended databases as well as recommended handbooks and encyclopedias
  • Library Catalogue: use keyword or subject searches to find relevant books and journal titles

  2. Search Strategies 

  3. Interlibrary Loans / RACER

  • RACER: free service to order journal articles, conference proceedings, or books that aren't in the library catalogue

  Managing Citations

           For managing citations & formatting bibliographies
           Online tutorial Introduction to RefWorks includes all the basics
           See the instructions for importing references into RefWorks from several databases

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