1. Leighton Christiansen August 15, 2013 2013 Mid-Continent Transportation Research Symposium Intelligent Navigation of Transportation Information: Research Resources for Transportation Topics

2. Overview On-line Transportation Research Tools Sample Search Bibliography & Documentation (Supplemental Info Slides included)

3. On-line Transportation Research Tools

4. Transportation Research International Database (TRID) http://trid.trb.org/

5. What is in TRID? http://trid.trb.org/

6. Searching with TRID http://trid.trb.org/

7. Searching with TRID http://trid.trb.org/

8. Searching with TRID http://trid.trb.org/

9. Improving Search with TRT http://trt.trb.org/

10. Improving Search with TRT http://trt.trb.org/

11. Improving Search with TRT http://trt.trb.org/

12. Improving Search with TRT http://trt.trb.org/

13. Outputting Results

15. Outputting Results: DOC & HTML

16. Outputting Results: Citation

17. Outputting Results: RIS Reference Management Tools (Citation Management Tools)

18. Outputting Results: RIS

19. Supplemental Slides Using other Search Tools Transportation Libraries & Knowledge Networks Why isn’t everything Online? Links to Citation Management Tools

20. Thank You

21. On-line Transportation Research Tools: RITA USDOT Research Hub http://ntlsearch.bts.gov/researchhub/index.do

22. On-line Transportation Research Tools: Transportation Library Resources National Transportation Library http://ntl.bts.gov/

23. Directory of Transportation Libraries and Information Centers More than 350 libraries and information centers – More than 30 state DOT libraries – Scores of university transportation or engineering centers – Score of corporate or industry group libraries and centers – Transportation Knowledge Networks http://ntl.bts.gov/tldir/

24. To Google or Not to Google? No, Google better Google Custom Searches https://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=006511 338351663161139:hovexomtgsw https://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=006511 338351663161139:cnk1qdck0dc https://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=006983 765767145806606:9m37jbf8ojm https://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=010809 592348763093458:r3i0biypw1u https://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=010809 592348763093458:3jsikrwi874 https://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=012995 479145342077058:ipxox2lxkha

25. Why isn’t everything Online? Born analog – Printed before 1994 Resource Limits Hidden Internet – Password protected – Paywall – Search depth – Link rot Copyright law Grey literature – Whitepapers – Conference Proceedings

26. Links to Citation Management Tools Comparisons of 30+ tools – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_referen ce_management_software http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_referen ce_management_software – Operating systems supported – Citation Styles – Word processor integration – Costs Endnote http://endnote.com/http://endnote.com/ Mendeley http://www.mendeley.com/http://www.mendeley.com/ RefWorks http://www.refworks.com/http://www.refworks.com/ Zotero http://www.zotero.org/http://www.zotero.org/

27. Resources Google. “Custom Search Engine.” https://www.google.com/cse/. Mendeley Ltd. “Mendeley.” http://www.mendeley.com/. RefWorks. “RefWorks Home Page”. http://www.refworks.com/. Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. “Zotero.” http://www.zotero.org/. Thomson Reuters. “EndNote.” http://endnote.com/. Transportation Research Board. “Transport Research International Documentation - TRID.” http://trid.trb.org/. ———. “Transportation Research Thesaurus (TRT).” http://trt.trb.org/trt.asp? ———. “TRB Research in Progress - RiP.” http://rip.trb.org/. U.S. Department of Transportation, Research Innovation and Technology Administration. “National Transportation Library.” http://ntl.bts.gov/. ———. “US DOT Research Hub.” http://ntlsearch.bts.gov/researchhub/index.do. U.S. Department of Transportation, Research Innovation and Technology. http://ntl.bts.gov/tldir/. Wikipedia. “Comparison of Reference Management Software.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software Image Fair Use Claim: Images of copyrighted software and logos are used in this presentation under the claim of Fair Use. This presentation is intended for the nonprofit education of transportation researchers, only small percentages of copyrighted materials are used, and there is no intention on the part of the author to decrease the market for any of the services commented on in this presentation.