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Purpose of this guide: This guide provides a starting point for library research on Markov Chains. It will help you locate the best sources of authoritative, scholarly, and scientific journal articles, and help you find selected information tools. It includes links to resources for evaluating, citing and managing sources, as well as links to obtain additional assistance in the research and writing process. Feel free to contact Kresge librarians for additional assistance.
You may also want to use the Dartmouth Library to access the catalog, other electronic resources, course reserves, library services, etc. The eResources section of the Digital Library contains a subset of electronic resources including: Research Guides, Article Indexes, Databases, Electronic Journals, and e-Books.. Digital Library eResources subject folders are available for broad topics. The eResources folder for Mathematics is also a convenient access point for research in this class.
Print and digital books, magazines, journal titles, and other materials available through all the Dartmouth College libraries can be found by using the Dartmouth Library Catalog. Search by author, title, subject headings or keyword; the Library Catalog will give you the call numbers and locations of the print items, and the URLs for the digital materials.
Choosing Resources - Points to consider when choosing resources to use in your research:
—-> Dates covered (many online or Web indexes and databases go back to the mid-80's; consult the print version for materials before the online index began; find print index by title in the online catalog or consult a librarian)
—-> Subject areas covered
—-> Types of source materials indexed. Does the index cover popular magazines or scientific journals?
—-> Types of material within the source indexed. Does the index include conference paper abstracts, editorials, corrections, and other matter outside of the full research reports or articles?
—-> Numbers of source publications indexed-this gives you an indication of how much you may have to limit a search due to large retrievals.
—-> Language-English only or many languages? You may need to limit a search to English-language-only materials in databases that contain foreign language material such as GeoRef.
—-> Are there special searching features that you might need such as cited reference searching, citation links, geographic search features, limits to review articles?
—-> Are you searching full-text in the database or reference information only? Are there links to full-text?
FINDING ARTICLES IN SCHOLARLY JOURNALS
ABI/INFORM global A premier source of business information from thousands of journals, covering industry-specific conditions, trends, and topics worldwide.
Academic Search Premier Large scholarly, multi-disciplinary, mostly full text database. You can limit your results to peer reviewed journals, as opposed to magazines. Google Scholar The Google search engine indexing the more scholarly material for which the basic descriptive information is freely available, such as title, author and abstract. Generally, the coverage of the material in Google is less consistent, less thorough, and less reliable than the coverage in the other indexes MathSciNet A database of bibliographic information and reviews (summaries) for mathematical research literature created and maintained by the American Mathematical Society. Includes books, 1700 journals and serials, conference proceedings. PubMed Produced by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), MEDLINE is the premier bibliographic database covering medicine and related fields in health and life sciences. MEDLINE contains citations and abstracts from 1966 to the present from over 3,900 US and international journals. This is helpful for the biomechanical studies of motion and for the anatomy of motion. Search360 Search360 is an interface that allows you to simultaneously search multiple article indexes. Right now there are approximately 50 article indexes included in Search360. Social Sciences Abstracts provides comprehensive abstracting and indexing of more than 415 core English-language periodicals. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of social sciences journals. WoS Web of Science indexes about 8000 journals in all subject areas. Web of Science offers the unique Cited Reference Searching which allows you to search forward in time based who has cited a paper. Most material in WoS is peer reviewed. See eResources for a complete listing of indexes, databases, and other electronic resources licensed by Dartmouth.
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EVALUATING, CITING, & MANAGING SOURCES
"Life Cycle" of Scholarly Information "Testing the Surf: Criteria for Evaluating Internet sources." This 1997 article provides a time-tested list of criteria that you should apply in considering using any information resource. Critical Evaluation of Resources, a guide from the UC Berkeley Library that covers issues like determining bias and objectivity in a source. How do I find out if a journal is peer reviewed/ refereed:
Sources Their Use and Acknowledgement (Dartmouth College)
EndNote is a bibliographic management database that can be used in several ways to help you organize and track citations to the literature. You can download searches from databases such as the online catalog, GeoRef, General Science Index and Web of Science directly into EndNote. EndNote provides an index to the articles by author, keyword, date, etc.., and can be used to produce a bibliography when combined with a word processing program like WORD. Kresge Library will offer workshops on EndNote and RefWorks upon demand. See Choosing a Reference Manager for help in what program to use. More information about reference management programs is on the Managing your References page. LIBRARY LOCATIONS, MAPS, HOURS Borrow Direct: Delivers books from the combined library catalogs of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale within 4 business days. 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. ACCESSING RESOURCES FROM OFF CAMPUS Most library resources require that you be on campus so that the Dartmouth IP address is recognized. However, you can access resources from off campus by setting up your computer connection in several ways. This page describes many of the ways you can set up your computer so you can use library resources when you are not on campus. Accessing Resources from Off-Campus |
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