GPS: Great Problems Seminar Heal the World

Professors Rulfs & Vassallo

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The library provides you with a vast digital library as well as print materials for your coursework and projects: www.wpi.edu/+library.

RefWorks: Managing Your References

RefWorks Help

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Create an Individual Account

Upload and share your references with RefWorks. Any references saved into your personal RefWorks account can be output directly into MLA citation format, which can by copied & pasted into your papers or course wiki. Within MS Word your RefWorks references for in-text citations and your bibliography can be instantly formated.

Create an account at refworks.com/refworks.

Course Account within myWPI

Connect to myWPI for the Heal the World Share RefWorks account (under Course Materials). You may export and load references from your individual account into this shared account. To do so follow these steps.

Connect to your Individual RefWorks account at refworks.com/refworks

Choose References, Export

Select RefWorks Tagged Format

Click Export to Text File & save file in a place you will find it again in a moment

Logout of RefWorks

Connect to the Heal the World myWPI course site, under Course Materials, choose RefWorks database for Heal the World (username: htw-refworks)

Click on References, Import

From first drop down, choose RefWorks Tagged Format, 2nd choose Tagged Format

Browse for the file and click Import to bring the references into the shared course database

Research Strategies

Free Web vs. Scholarly Content

The free web: search engines and other free web sites such as Wikipedia
Britannica Encyclopedia Online and other subscribed Encyclopedias.

QuickFIND - Getting Started

Try QuickFIND multi-database search to retrieve results from 12 databases (including the library catalog & Worldcat for books) and Google Scholar on your topic with one search. There are 3 ways to search:

Library homepage,
Databases by Subject categories - Medical and Health, (or choose Business & Management)
Advanced.

Search QuickFIND to find at least 2 useful articles on one of these topics: Cholera, Typhoid Fever, Polio, Giardia

Saving/Emailing from QuickFIND
Check the items you wish to save and export to RefWorks or download/email the results.

Find Books

Search the Library Catalog for items @ WPI or WorldCat to search beyond our library.

RefWorks TIP: Within RefWorks choose Search, Library Catalogs, Worcester Polytechnic Insitute to import references from the WPI library catalog.

Search the Library Catalog to find 1 ebook and 1 print book on one of these topics: Lyme disease, black plague, or smallpox

Find Articles

The Library has many specialized databases. To find them look under Databases & Electronic Resources by Subject:

All databases listed are WPI subscriptions. Also check out Google Scholar a web search of scholarly sources. Many Google Scholar results lead you to subscribed resources. Within database searches, look for image or "FullTextFinder" link for retrieval options.

RefWorks TIP: Within research databases look for export, download, or other options to direct export references you find into your RefWorks account. In Google Scholar, choose Scholar Preferences, then at bottom change Bibliography Manager to RefWorks.

Gale PowerSearch: Articles on all topics, click more search options, limit to peer-reviewed for scholarly articles. Try the Subject Guide Search to find articles by subdivisions:
EBSCOhost Business Source: Full text journals and trade publications in all disciplines of business and management.
LEXIS®-NEXIS® Academic: Current full text news, legal, medical, and business information. News coverage ranges from regional coverage (Worcester T & G; Boston Globe; New York Times) to international. Need statistical data? Try LEXIS®-NEXIS® Statistical
PubMed: Current abstracts and some full text scholarly articles on medical and health topics.
ScienceDirect: Current scholarly articles on sciences and social science topics.

Finding the Full Text

Is the journal online or here in the library? Use FullTextFinder to link to full articles or retrieval options within database results or search our Journals, Magazines, & Newspapers list
Visit another library: Search WorldCat to find one
Request delivery from another library: Interlibrary Loan.

WPI's Journal, Magazine, Newspaper Search

To find sources such as New York Times, Nature, the Lancet and other magazines print or online that the library subscribes to, search by source title within our Journals, Magazines, & Newspapers list.

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Last modified: Sep 02, 2009, 08:00 EDT