====== Tips for literature search ======

===== For Starters =====

==== General Information ====

  * [[http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/usered/grad/researchskills/flow_of_info.html|Scientific publication cycle]]
  * Kinds of documents:
     * **patents**: government granted license to an invention
     * **standards**: agreed upon methodology: e.g. 802.11
     * **journals**: research results presented in a periodical/magazine
     * **conference proceedings**: research results presented at a meeting (most conferences in CS are peer-reviewed)
     * **technical report**: description of a solution to a specific problem
     * **books**
        * reference: encyclopedias, tables, data collections, properties
        * manuals: lab methods, programming languages, operating systems
        * monographs: general topics
     * **technical specifications**: how a device or component works, e.g. circuit diagrams
     * **code library**: database of source code listings or linkable subroutines
  * Peer review: researchers validating each others work before publication
  * [[http://www.yorku.ca/tutorial/academic_integrity/?g11n.enc=UTF-8|Academic Integrity & Plagiarism]] web site
  * //If you are not sure how to get started on your project, come to Steacie//


==== Free Citation Management Software ====

  * [[http://refworks.scholarsportal.info/Refworks/login.asp?WNCLang=false|RefWorks]] can help you manage your footnotes & bibliography on the web. Easy to use, interfaces directly with work to create footnotes & bibliographies. If logging in from home, you need to use RWYorku group code.
  * Library [[http://www.library.yorku.ca/ccm/Home/ResearchAndInstruction/citationmgmt/index.en|Footnotes, Bibliographies, RefWorks]] page, [[http://citationmachine.net/|Landmark Citation Machine]].



==== Logging in from Home ====

  * Need to use Passport York login or bar code number & PIN from library card to authenticate as a York user.
  * Information [[http://www.library.yorku.ca/ccm/Home/eResources/RemoteAccess.htm|here]] on logging in.
  * Remember: need to type in name of eresource using "by title" link after logging in.

===== Finding Resources at the Library =====

==== Finding Books & Journals ====

  * Do a search in [[http://www.library.yorku.ca|The York Catalogue]]:
    * by title: Concurrent programming in Java : design principles and patterns
    * by author: Bjarne Stroustrup
    * by journal title: journal of the acm
    * by subject: Java
    * by subject: concurrent programming, parallel programming, parallel processing
    * by keyword: concurrent and programming and java

  * [[http://books.google.com|Google Books Search]] -- search inside the books



==== Finding Articles ====

These online databases can also be found in the [[http://www.library.yorku.ca|eResources Quick Links or Search]]  boxes on the library home page.

=== Article Citation Databases ===

  * [[http://www.library.yorku.ca/eresolver/?id=59857|INSPEC]] - best source for citations in all computing fields, best for comprehensive searches
    * concurrent and aerospace and programming
    * concurrent and locking and java
  * [[http://www.library.yorku.ca/eresolver/?id=437|Web of Science]] - very good coverage of all major computing journals, good for citation searches
    * concurrent and locking and java
  * [[http://www.library.yorku.ca/eresolver/?id=1194128|Scopus]] - both references and citations
  * [[http://portal.acm.org/guide.cfm?coll=portal&dl=GUIDE&CFID=15590639&CFTOKEN=82226420|ACM Guide to Computing Literature]] - another one focusing on computing
  * **Very important:** look in full text article databases for conference proceedings:
    * IEEE, ACM or Lecture Notes in Computer Science: look in DBs below
    * SPIE: keyword search in catalogue: SPIE and proceeding #
    * Other: keyword search with part of title
    * Last resort: 50-75% of conference papers usually on author's home pages

=== Full Text Article Databases ===

  * [[http://www.library.yorku.ca/eresolver/?id=19|ACM Digital Library]] - best resource: all ACM journals & proceedings
  * [[http://www.library.yorku.ca/eresolver/?id=435|IEEE Xplore]] - all IEEE journals & proceedings, more engineering than CS
  * [[http://www.library.yorku.ca/eresolver/?id=51140|Lecture Notes in Computer Science]] - source of articles from various conference proceedings, find citations from Web of Science

=== Online Computer Books ===

  * [[http://www.library.yorku.ca/eresolver/?id=59380|Safari]] - over 200 online computer/technical books on a wide range of subjects
  * [[http://www.library.yorku.ca/eresolver/?id=1172517|Books24x7]] - 1000s of searchable full text books in computing and engineering
  * [[http://www.library.yorku.ca/eresolver/?id=983537|Synthesis]] - amazing collection of CS & Engineering ebooks, more advanced topics


===== Using Resources on the Internet =====

Use the Internet wisely.

  * Using [[http://www.google.com|Google]] as a scholarly research tool:
    * example: concurrent programming
    * example: concurrent programming locking
    * example: concurrent programming locking algorithm
    * example: concurrent programming locking algorithm java
    * strategy: find good portal sites
    * strategy: make sure you know exactly who produced the content
  * [[http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/|DBLP]] - good CS index of free web & many conferences & journals
  * [[http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu|Citeseer]] - indexes the free web but a bit out of date
  * [[http://arxiv.org/corr/home|Computing Research Repository]] (CoRR) - eprints and other online papers
  * [[http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/index.html|Collection of Computer Science bibliographies]]
  * [[http://scholar.google.com|Google Scholar]] -- good tool, but a bit unreliable while in Beta release. Generally quite good for CS, especially to find conference papers not in any of the databases we subscribe to.
  * and others

[[http://www.yorku.ca/yul/cse/?p=32|Blog post]] version of this page.

===== Librarian Contact Information =====

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  * Email: [[mailto:jdupuis@yorku.ca|jdupuis@yorku.ca]]
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