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Researching Sustainable Transportation What Would the Librarian Do?

Researching Sustainable Transportation What Would the Librarian Do?. Fred O’Bryant Applied Sciences Librarian Brown Science and Engineering Library October 2007. Sample RefWorks Folder. Bibliography Created by RefWorks. Look for a Good Overview Article.

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Researching Sustainable Transportation What Would the Librarian Do?

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  1. Researching Sustainable TransportationWhat Would the Librarian Do? Fred O’Bryant Applied Sciences Librarian Brown Science and Engineering Library October 2007

  2. Sample RefWorks Folder

  3. Bibliography Created by RefWorks

  4. Look for a Good Overview Article Journal of Infrastructure Systems, Vol. 11, No. 1, March 2005, pp.31-50

  5. Search VIRGO

  6. Some VIRGO Hints • Use single quotes to search for phrases: ‘sustainable transportation’ • Use the truncation symbol $ and Boolean connectors to improve results: sustain$ and transportation • Try various combinations of terms and synonyms to insure best coverage and specificity

  7. VDOT Library

  8. National Transportation Library

  9. Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information

  10. WorldCat

  11. Interlibrary Loan

  12. Journal Article Databases

  13. Journal Article Databases

  14. Journal Article Databases

  15. Journal Article Databases – Citation Referencing

  16. Reference Books

  17. Dissertations

  18. Scholar’s Lab in Alderman Library (for Statistical and GIS Data)

  19. Government Information Resources in Alderman Library

  20. Search Engine for U.S. Government Resources

  21. Technical Report Literature

  22. Technical Report Literature

  23. Pictures and Graphics Courtesy AP Photo Archive

  24. Socio-Economic Aspects of a Topic Systemic Practice and Action Research, Vol. 14, No. 5, October 2001, pp. 597-613.

  25. Web Searching

  26. Web Searching

  27. And if you have questions later, you should always… Ask a librarian! Phone 924-3628 E-Mail sciref@virginia.edu Research Tutorial

  28. Researching Sustainable Transportation – What Would the Librarian Do? Fred O’Bryant Applied Sciences Librarian Brown Science and Engineering Library 924–6836 jfo@virginia.edu October 2007

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