Introduction to Library Services

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Introduction to Library Services Resources
for Schulich PhD Students

• Slides and key links available athttp//www.lib
  rary.yorku.ca/cms/bbl/assignments/phd/

Sophie Bury Head, Bronfman Business
Library sbury_at_yorku.ca
Kim Stymest Business Librarian stymest_at_yorku.ca
Angie An Business Librarian angiean_at_yorku.ca F
all 2013
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Agenda

• Introduction to the Libraries
• Key services for graduate students
• Subject liaison librarians
• RACER/Interlibrary loan
• Business Databases A-Z
• Research Guides
• Articles, Company Industry, Subject Research
  Guides
• Reference Management Tools
• RefWorks/Zotero
• Dissertation and Theses Databases
• Citation Databases
• Yorkspace open access

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Getting started at the Librarieswww.library.yorku
.ca

• www.library.yorku.ca

Library Catalogue
Link to Business Library
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Bronfman Business Library Getting help
including consultations
Bronfman Library Homepage http//www.library.york
u.ca/cms/bbl
Go here to see a list of subject liaison
librarians
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Web pages designed for graduate students
Select students tab
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Obtaining resources not available at York
University Libraries

• Direct Borrowing Privileges
• i.e. borrowing in person at another Canadian
  university libraries, including University of
  Toronto (UofT fee applies)
• Interlibrary loan services via RACER
• Register with RACER so you have an account
• Requests submitted online
• No charge for books, and up to 50 journal
  articles free per year for graduate students

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Bronfman Business Library Business databases
A-Z research guides
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Storing, organizing and managing citations and
auto generation of bibliographies- RefWorks/Zotero

• Free to all York students, staff and faculty
• Web-based
• Allows you to create a database of citations or
  references to resources (books, journal articles,
  web sites, etc.)
• Facilitates the automatic insertion of citations
  within a research paper as in-text references,
  footnotes, or endnotes, and the creation of a
  formatted bibliography using a citation style of
  choice
• More information available on our web site

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Demonstration Proquest Business Zotero
Alerts are a handy feature of most articles
databases
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Dissertation and theses databases
Guide available http//www.library.yorku.ca/cms/h
elp-with-research/findingtheses/
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Citation databases
http//researchguides.library.yorku.ca/citedref
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YorkSpace and Open Access
YorkSpacehttp//researchguides.library.yorku.ca/y
orkspace
Open Access Publishing Toolkit http//researchguid
es.library.yorku.ca/open_access
The Scholarly Communications Initiative http//sch
olcom.yorku.ca
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Remember were available to help with research
questions

• Questions or comments?
• Feel free to contact the library
• In person Schulich Building S237
• E-mail bronfref_at_yorku.ca
• Chat IM Chat Reference (available on the
  Bronfman Business Library homepage
• Phone [phone]
• Make an appointment withyour subject specialist
  librarian

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Thank You for Your Attention! Questions
Answers Session