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

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3 Sample RefWorks Folder

4 Bibliography Created by RefWorks

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

6 Search VIRGO

7 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

8 VDOT Library

9 National Transportation Library

10 Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information

11 WorldCat

12 Interlibrary Loan

13 Journal Article Databases

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16 Journal Article Databases – Citation Referencing

17 Reference Books

18 Dissertations

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

20 Government Information Resources in Alderman Library

21 Search Engine for U.S. Government Resources

22 Technical Report Literature

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24 Pictures and Graphics Courtesy AP Photo Archive

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

26 Web Searching

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

29 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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