Researching Sustainable Transportation

What Would the Librarian Do?

Fred O’BryantApplied Sciences Librarian

Brown Science and Engineering Library

October 2007

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Journal of Infrastructure Systems, Vol. 11, No. 1, March 2005, pp.31-50

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• 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

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Socio-Economic Aspects of a Topic

Systemic Practice and Action Research, Vol. 14, No. 5, October 2001, pp. 597-613.

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Research Tutorial

Researching Sustainable Transportation – What Would the Librarian Do?

Fred O’BryantApplied Sciences Librarian

Brown Science and Engineering Library

924–6836jfo@virginia.edu

October 2007