HARP 101: ENERGY AND SUSTAINABILITY

LIBRARY RESEARCH AND CRITICAL THINKING

September 12, 2013

http://www.slideshare.net/ebrown/

Elizabeth Brown

ebrown@binghamton.edu

(607)777-4882

LS-2304C

Finding Energy Information

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

A Question….

1. In 2011, how much energy did the United States consume?

How would you answer this?

What % was not from fossil fuels?

  

One Way

Historical Perspective

Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/US_historical_energy_consumption.png

Energy Flow, 2011 (Quadrillion BTU)

Source: http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/annual/diagram1.cfm

Renewable Energy as Share of Total Primary Energy Consumption, 2011

Source: http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/annual/perspectives.cfm

A Few Questions

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

A Few More Questions

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

Licensed Chemistry Databases

Licensed Chemistry Resources

BU Library Databases - Chemistry ScienceDirect Scifinder Scholar on the Web Web of Science (Web of Knowledge)

URL: http://libraryguides.binghamton.edu/chemistry?hs=a

Free Online Chemistry Resources

Wikipedia Chemistry Portal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemistry_portal

Chemspiderhttp://www.chemspider.com/

Google Scholarhttp://scholar.google.com/

Scifinder Scholar

Scifinder Scholar

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

Web of Science (Web of Knowledge)

URL:http://proxy.binghamton.edu/login?url=http://metalink.binghamton.edu:8332/V/8TBGLMLC555A6GMIDFHG19PGI1NJ7REDRCBLTMK99P9PN94KRY-05203?func=native-link&resource=BNG06037

Free Online Chemistry Resources

Wikipedia Chemistry Portal

URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemistry_portal

Chemspider

URL: http://www.chemspider.com/

Google Scholar

URL: http://scholar.google.com/

Citation Management Tools

Citation Management Software/Tools

Keep track of your research Keep Links to articles Create bibliographies and reference lists Insert formatted footnotes, endnotes into

documents. Multiple citation formats available

Citation Managers

Refworks – licensed to BU students and faculty

Zotero – free online (Firefox) Mendeley – free online

Reference Management Tools Guide:

URL:https://www.refworks.com/refworks2/default.aspx?r=authentication::init&groupcode=RWSUNYBinghamton

Create an Account

Go to the Libraries’ Research Help page:http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/research/index.html/ Select RefWorks Create an account Begin importing references GroupCode: RWSUNYBinghamton

Citation Styles; Importing Citations

Import Records

Create a Bibliography

Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh]

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/

What it looks like

Getting started with Zotero

Quick Start Guide: http://www.zotero.org/support/quick_start_guide

Adding References Formatting Creating Bibliographies

Adding and Viewing References

Creating and Organizing Folders

Creating a Bibliography

Creating a Bibliography

What is Mendeley?

Social network Reference Management tool Cloud-based file storage for documents Search interface to find articles http://www.mendeley.com/

Mendeley Profile

My Library

Papers in Mendeley

Mendeley Web Importer

Bookmarklet

Mendeley Desktop

Inserting Citations into MS Word

Groups in Mendeley

Mendeley Groups