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Motion StudyCOSC 12 - Winter 2005
Prof. Lorie Loeb |
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Sources such as encyclopedias and dictionaries are useful starting points when you need some background on a topic, or to familiarize yourself with key terms, issues, events, or people. Articles in these reference sources help you get oriented and often provide a bibliography of important references. Here are just a few examples.
AccessScience: McGrawHill Dictionary of Science and Technology Online
Search the Dartmouth library catalog to locate books, journals, and other items in the collections of all the Dartmouth libraries. Search by subject (using Library of Congress subject headings or Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), or search by keyword; you can also search for specific works by author, or by title.
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Think about the terms you use in any search, and come up with multiple ways of describing your topic. Many bibliographic databases, including the library catalog and the Wilson indexes, use assigned terms to describe the subject content of materials. Being aware of these subject terms can help you focus your search with great precision. Below are a sampling of Library of Congress (LC) Subject Headings that you may find useful. Kinematics
Human mechanics (other relevant headings:) Motion perception (vision)
Tip: Note that the results of a subject search are listed alphabetically, by default. For a listing that shows most recent publications first, choose "Limit/Sort," then "Sort Results by Year." Another Good Tip: if you're not sure of the exact Library of Congress Subject Heading, use a Keyword search to locate a few items that are relevant to your topic. Then use the Subject Headings associated with those items to lead you to more relevant materials. Keyword searches can be made to search for your terms in specific fields (subject, author, title). With a little creativity, you can use this technique with great success, as shown here |
If your topic is too current or too specific to be found in books or reference sources, try finding journal articles on the topic. Scholarly articles provide in-depth information; they are edited and reviewed by experts.
Articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers can be found using article indexes (searchable databases of article records). In many cases these indexes link through to full-text articles (look for the 
ArticleLinker icon); if not, use the Library's Catalog to locate the source of the article. Note that the Catalog does not contain records for individual articles.
Article not available at Dartmouth? Try DartDoc. (Also see the section, Getting Items Not Available at Dartmouth.)
Selected indexes relevant to geographical and interdisciplinary topics are listed here. See eResources for a complete listing of electronic indexes, databases, and other eResources licensed by Dartmouth. Ask a librarian if you need help choosing an article index with a particular focus (e.g., literary, environmental, political)..
Wilson Web Databases: These can be searched separately or together, and cover both popular and scholarly magazines and journals.
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The library has many print and electronic journals which you can find using the Library Catalog; below are a sampling of journals relevant to kinesiology, time-motion study, and animation.
| Journal Title and Electronic Access | Library Print Holdings |
| Biomechanics: the journal of lower extremity movement | Online with Academic Search Premier |
| Gait and Posture | Online with Elsevier ScienceDirect |
| Journal of Applied Biomechanics | Online with Academic Search Premier |
| Journal of human movement studies | Dana Print Journal |
| Journal of motor behavior | Dana Print Journal and online with Academic Search Premier |
| MTM journal of methods-time measurement | Full text online from ABI/Inform |
| Motor control: the international journal for the multidisciplinary study of voluntary movement. | Online with Academic Search Premier |
| Sports Engineering | Online with Academic Search Premier |
Internet Searching Guide -- Go to this site to find descriptions, links, and evaluations of different search engines (e.g., Google, Scirus, Teoma, Vivísimo) Always evaluate the source of your information before you use it in a paper, particularly if it is a non-reviewed or non-refereed Web site. Always cite your Web sources as you would cite printed resources!
Directories, or annotated guides, to selected Internet resources. Browse by topic headings, or search.
Selected Web sites
NYU Movement Research Group
http://movement.nyu.edu/
The Dartmouth Writing Program provides an online resources page for students to help you with all aspects of composition.
The Student Center for Research, Writing & Information Technology (RWIT) trains student tutors to assist with paper topics, research assignments and multimedia projects.
Style guides provide accepted standards to follow when preparing research papers for publication. Sources is the Dartmouth College general guide to citing sources, and contains required reading about plagiarism and when, and how, to cite material you are using for a paper or presentation.
Reference management programs allow you to build a personal database of your references to articles, books, websites - any information source - and then easily create bibliographies and reference lists using any particular style, without having to retype or reformat. See this overview of reference management programs widely used at Dartmouth.
RefWorks
RefWorks is a web-based reference management program that allows users to create their own personal database of references by importing references from online article databases. RefWorks makes it easy to search, sort, and cite these references in writing papers and then to automatically format the paper and the bibliography. To get started with RefWorks, go to http://www.refworks.com and click on the "User Login" button on the menu bar. Then click on the "Sign up for an Individual Account" link and fill out the form. RefWorks in-context help, or the online tutorial, will guide you through the basics. See the overview for details on importing citations from various article databases into RefWorks.
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Please fill out the DartDoc Form for documents that are in Storage or that are not in the Dartmouth Library system (Interlibrary Loan requests). See the Document Delivery webpage for more details on these services.
You can also use the Request Selected Item feature of the Library Catalog to request books or articles from Storage.
Map of the libraries & Library Hours
Getting Started with Library Research
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Accessing Electronic Resources from Off-Campus (proxy server instructions)
"Life Cycle" of Scholarly Information slide
Help
For assistance with any part of your research project please contact:
Barbara DeFelice, Head, Kresge and Cook Libraries, 6-3565
Jane Quigley, Reference Librarian, Kresge Physical Sciences Library, 6-3564Ann Perbohner, Reference Librarian, Kresge Physical Sciences Library, 6-3564
Email: Kresge.Library.Reference@Dartmouth.EDU
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