2. What is research?
When is a source credible/useful?
Energy research covers several subjects:
Chemistry, Geology, Physics, Engineering
How do you document your work?
With Reference Citation Management Tools:
Refworks, Zotero, Mendeley
3.
4. 1. In 2011, how much energy did the United
States consume?
How would you answer this?
What % was not from fossil fuels?
8. Renewable Energy as
Share of Total
Primary Energy
Consumption, 2011
Source: http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/annual/perspectives.cfm
9. 4. Google Scholar searches the same journals, patents, conference
proceedings and monographs as the Libraries’ databases.
TRUE
FALSE
5. The Libraries spends over $300,000 annually to license and
purchase research tools like article databases, journals, books, and
websites for Chemistry.
TRUE
FALSE
6. The database Registry in Scifinder Scholar is a world-wide, current
alphabetical and institutional listing of all working chemists, with
an author number attached to their name for easy searching.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
10. 7. Chemspider includes a section for Synthetic
preparations, called Synthetic pages, where you
can get detailed information on synthesizing
substances.
TRUE
FALSE
8. The Wikipedia Chemistry Portal has a special
symbol that notes where a chemist has edited
entries and/or synthesized a chemical substance.
TRUE
FALSE
11.
12. BU Library Databases - Chemistry
ScienceDirect
Scifinder Scholar on the Web
Web of Science (Web of Knowledge)
14. Wikipedia Chemistry Portal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemistry_portal
Chemspider
http://www.chemspider.com/
Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.com/
15.
16. Explore References
29 million references
10,000 major scientific journals, books, proceedings
1800’s to the present
References to patent and patent families from 57 patent authorities
worldwide.
200 million citations
Explore Substances
CAS RegistrySM, the largest source of chemical substance
information
More than 1.6 billion chemical, biological, thermal, and spectral
property values
Explore Reactions
15 million reactions on organometallics, total syntheses of natural
products, and biotransformation reactions
Reaction conditions, yields, and catalysts
23. Keep track of your research
Keep Links to articles
Create bibliographies and reference lists
Insert formatted footnotes, endnotes into
documents.
Multiple citation formats available
24. Refworks – licensed to BU students and faculty
Zotero – free online (Firefox)
Mendeley – free online
Reference Management Tools Guide:
26. Go to the Libraries’ Research Help page:
http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/research/inde
x.html/
Select RefWorks
Create an account
Begin importing references
GroupCode: RWSUNYBinghamton
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31.
32. a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you
collect, manage, and cite your research
sources. It lives in your web browser.
Download: http://www.zotero.org/