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

Leighton ChristiansenAugust 15, 2013

2013 Mid-Continent Transportation Research Symposium

Intelligent Navigation of Transportation Information:

Research Resources for Transportation Topics

Overview

• On-line Transportation Research Tools

• Sample Search• Bibliography & Documentation

(Supplemental Info Slides included)

On-line Transportation Research Tools

Transportation Research International Database

(TRID)

http://trid.trb.org/

What is in TRID?

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Outputting Results

Outputting Results

Outputting Results: DOC & HTML

Outputting Results: Citation

Outputting Results: RIS

Reference Management Tools (Citation Management Tools)

Outputting Results: RIS

Supplemental Slides

• Using other Search Tools• Transportation Libraries & Knowledge

Networks• Why isn’t everything Online? • Links to Citation Management Tools

Thank You

On-line Transportation Research Tools:

RITA USDOT Research Hubhttp://ntlsearch.bts.gov/researchhub/index.do

On-line Transportation Research Tools: Transportation Library Resources

National Transportation Library

http://ntl.bts.gov/

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/

To Google or Not to Google?No, Google better

Google Custom Searches

https://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=006511338351663161139:hovexomtgsw

https://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=006511338351663161139:cnk1qdck0dc

https://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=006983765767145806606:9m37jbf8ojm

https://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=010809592348763093458:r3i0biypw1u

https://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=010809592348763093458:3jsikrwi874

https://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=012995479145342077058:ipxox2lxkha

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

Links to Citation Management Tools

• Comparisons of 30+ tools– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_refere

nce_management_software– Operating systems supported– Citation Styles– Word processor integration– Costs

• Endnote http://endnote.com/• Mendeley http://www.mendeley.com/• RefWorks http://www.refworks.com/• Zotero http://www.zotero.org/

ResourcesGoogle. “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.

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.