Peter J. Robbie & John Collier

Table of Contents

1. The Library
2. What to keep in mind when reading and using information
3. Subject Terms for the Library Catalog
4. Journals of interest
5. Sample Books
6. Indexes: Finding journal articles
7. Web Sites of Interest
8. Citation Manager & Citing Sources
9. How to get more help
   
   

The Library

A wealth of print and digital information is provided by Feldberg Library | Kresge Library | Dana Biomedical Libraries.
All are part of the Dartmouth College Library.

How do I contact a reference librarian?

Important tools:

1. Library Catalog
   Everything owned or licensed by the library. Search for books and journals, both print and electronic, videos, maps, manuscripts, scores, sound recordings, and more.
   
   
2. Search360
   Search multiple indexes/databases for articles.
   
   Have an article citation? » Want to find the article?
   
   
3. Borrow Direct
   Directly request books from the combined library catalogs of Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale University; 4 day turnaround.
   
   
4. DartDoc
   Get documents (books, articles, patents, etc.) that are not available at Dartmouth.

What to keep in mind when reading and using information

• Scope (overview, indepth, narrow, broad, comprehensive, one or many topics, coverage dates)
  
  
• Audience (student, scholar/researcher/expert, consumer, layperson)
  
  
• Timeliness (date of publication, last update)
  
  
• Scholarly vs. Popular (peer review, new research, bibliography/footnotes, author credentials and if scholar or journalist, advertisements)
  Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory (identifies peer reviewed, scholarly/consumer, demographics, where indexed)
  
  
• Authority (author credentials and previous written work)
  Biography and genealogy master index
  Who's Who in Science and Engineering
  Profiles/vitas on organizations' Web sites
  Reviews (Book review digest plus, more)
  Citation & Author Analysis from Web of Science (includes humanities and social sciences)
  
  
• Documentation (references, bibliography, footnotes, hyperlinks)
  
  
• Objectivity (point of view, sponsorship, opinion)
  Associations Unlimited
  Guide to the American left
  The Right guide
  
  
• Primary vs. Secondary (original research, new findings and theories with supporting data, eye-witness/first-person account, testimony/transcripts, live recordings, summarize research, textbook)

Adapted from Critical evaluation of resources (University of California, Berkeley)
Also see: Techniques to apply and questions to ask when evaluating Web resources (University of California, Berkeley)

Subject Terms for the Library Catalog

• Anthropometry
• Design
• Design, Industrial
• Engineering design
• Human engineering
• Human factors
• Human-machine systems
• New products
• Production engineering
• Prototypes engineering
• Technological innovations
• Technology and civilization
• User interfaces
• Visual communication

What resources provide information on product design?

Journals:

1. ACM transactions on computer-human interaction
2. Computer-Aided Design
3. Design issues
4. Design News
5. Design Studies
6. Ergonomics in design
7. ID: magazine of international design
8. IEEE transactions on systems, man, and cybernetics
9. Industrial design
10. Industry and innovation
11. Innovation
12. International journal of human-computer studies
13. International Journal of Human Factors in Manufacturing
14. International journal of man-machine studies
15. Journal of engineering design
16. Materials and Design
17. Presence
18. Product design & development
19. Technology review
20. Technovation
21. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction
22. Wired

Books:

(Try Borrow Direct if a book is not owned or is checked-out)

1. About face 2.0
2. American design adventure
3. American design in the twentieth century : personality and performance
4. Architecture of Philippe Starck
5. Artifacts of R. Buckminster Fuller : a comprehensive collection of his designs and drawings
6. Being digital
7. Case studies in engineering design
8. Conceptual blockbusting
9. Cyberpsychology : an introduction to human-computer interaction
10. Design for manufacturability handbook
11. Design matters : the organisation and principles of engineering design
12. Design paradigms : case histories of error and judgment in engineering
13. Designing interaction
14. Discovering design : explorations in design studies
15. Don't make me think
16. The Elements of user experience
17. Encyclopedia of emerging industries
18. Engineering Design Process
19. The evolution of designs : biological analogy in architecture and the applied arts
20. Frank O. Gehry : the complete works
21. Handbook of human factors and ergonomics
22. Handbook of industrial innovation
23. Handbook of materials for product design
24. Handbook of usability testing
25. Human factors in engineering and design
26. Humanscale 1/2/3
27. Industrial Design : Reflection Of A Century
28. Invention by design : how engineers get from thought to thing
29. The invisible computer
30. The look of the century
31. On line and on paper: visual representations, visual culture, and computer graphics in design engineering
32. Philippe Starck distorde : conversation about design between Alberto Alessi and Philippe Starck
33. Psychology of everyday things
34. Product design and development
35. Santiago Calatrava, conversations with students : the M.I.T. lectures
36. Santiago Calatrava's creative process
37. Santiago Calatrava, the artworks : a laboratory of ideas, forms and structures
38. Set phasers on stun : and other true tales of design, technology, and human error
39. Success through failure : the paradox of design
40. Things that make us smart
41. 300 years of industrial design
42. Your private sky : the art of design science

Indexes: (search for articles/reports)

1. ABI-Inform (Proquest)
2. Academic search premier
3. ACM portal
4. Art Full-text
5. Avery index to architectural periodicals
6. Compendex
7. Design and applied arts index
8. IEEE Xplore
9. Inspec
10. PsycINFO

Websites:

1. Centre for Sustainable Design
2. Core77 Design Network
3. DesignSurfer
4. Google Scholar
5. Product Design and Development
6. Product Development & Management Association (PDMA)
7. Scirus
8. useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's Website

Citation Manager:

RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic management program that allows users to create their own personal database of bibliographic references by importing references from online databases. RefWorks makes it easy to search, sort, and use these references in writing papers and then to automatically format the paper and the bibliography. Refworks provides import formats for many databases, including Proquest and the CSA collection of databases.

Citing Sources:

Sources and Citations at Dartmouth College "This document provides a broad overview of the practice of citing sources. It discusses why learning to cite sources is an essential part of your education, as well as why failing to cite your sources properly can have serious consequences. This document covers a wide range of scenarios relating to citing sources, plagiarism, and Dartmouth’s Academic Honor Principle." (from the Preface of Sources)

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