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

Sample RefWorks Folder

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

Search VIRGO

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

VDOT Library

National Transportation Library

Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information

WorldCat

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Journal Article Databases – Citation Referencing

Reference Books

Dissertations

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

Government Information Resources in Alderman Library

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

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And if you have questions later, you should always… Ask a librarian! Phone Research Tutorial

Researching Sustainable Transportation – What Would the Librarian Do? Fred O’Bryant Applied Sciences Librarian Brown Science and Engineering Library 924–6836 October 2007

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