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Engineering 28/CS 82 : Mobile Robotics (SC)
Finding Definitions & Background Information:
AccessScience @ McGraw-Hill
Full-text access to 7100+ articles, 115,000 dictionary terms, and hundreds of Research Updates in all areas of science and technology updated daily. A good place to start for overview articles and definitions. Also a good place to find topics!
The human-computer interaction handbook
Publisher: New York : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, c2008.
Cornell Reference QA76.9 .H85H8568 2008
Robotics and automation handbook
Publisher: Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2005.
Cornell Reference TJ211 .R5573 2005
Finding Books:
Note: Most Robotics books are found in the TJ200 section of the library, if you want to browse the stacks for books on this topic. But always search Tripod too as robot books may be in other sections of our collection too!
Finding Articles - Library Databases:
Look for the 
button and click on it to see if you can get online access to the citation's article. If Swarthmore does not have access to the online article, you will be given the option to check Tripod for print access, or it will populate an InterLibrary Loan request form for you.
If you are planning to do any research off-campus, you will need to log in to EZ-PROXY, which is Swarthmore's proxy server. Once you have logged in through the proxy server, your access to IP-linked resources will be allowed.
button and click on it to see if you can get online access to the citation's article. If Swarthmore does not have access to the online article, you will be given the option to check Tripod for print access, or it will populate an InterLibrary Loan request form for you.If you are planning to do any research off-campus, you will need to log in to EZ-PROXY, which is Swarthmore's proxy server. Once you have logged in through the proxy server, your access to IP-linked resources will be allowed.
ProQuest Research Library
Provider: ProQuest
An interdisciplinary database which has much full-text. Always a good place to start your research. 1971-present.
Web of science
Provider: ISI
Provides access to the Social Sciences Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Search for scholarly articles in any discipline, or for articles that cite a known author or work. Coverage varies.
Electronic Journal Packages:
ACM Digital Library
Provides access to the Association of Computing Machinery's journals and other resources including conference proceedings, newsletters and transactions. Includes computer science and related disciplines. Covers 1969-present.
IEEE Computer Society digital library
Provider: IEEE
Provides online access to society magazines and transactions and selected conference proceedings published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Covers 1988-present.
JSTOR
For this class, JSTOR could be a good source of old math and general science journal articles. JSTOR does NOT cover the most recent 3-5 years of a journal!
ScienceDirect
Full-text is available only for SD journals to which the TriColleges subscribe. Full-text access for most journals goes back to 1993. Abstracts are available for non-subscribed journals.
Finding Information & Articles on the Web:
Scirus
Searchable database of scientific resources found on the World Wide Web.
Note: You can turn on the FIND IT! button in Scirus by going to SEARCH PREFERENCES. Select ENABLE next to ‘Library Partner Links’, then select Swarthmore College Library from the drop-down menu. Then select the SAVE PREFERENCES button.
Note: You can turn on the FIND IT! button in Scirus by going to SEARCH PREFERENCES. Select ENABLE next to ‘Library Partner Links’, then select Swarthmore College Library from the drop-down menu. Then select the SAVE PREFERENCES button.
Google scholar
Google Scholar often digs up things that the other databases don't - especially the older stuff (which may be available only in print)! Use the "Check Tripod" and "Find it @ Swarthmore" links to see if we have access to full text (or own the print copy).
CiteSeer
A scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science.
Intute
A free online service providing you with access to the very best Web Physical Sciences resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists.
Citation & Research Information:
Duke University Citation Guide
For online information on CITING information, check out this online guide. It gives examples of different citation styles (APA, MLA, Chicago & Turabian) for both print & electronic resources.
InterLibrary Loan & TriCollege Borrowing:
While Cornell Library has a really good collection, obviously there will be times when we don't actually own something you've located in your research. That is when you'll need to borrow from other libraries and to do this you will need Inter-Library Loan (ILL).
Tri-College ILL - BOOKS: If you want a book from Bryn Mawr or Haverford, simply press the REQUEST button at the top of the Tripod screen. Enter your name & barcode, and select WHERE you want to pick up the book. Delivery takes approximately one day library to library.
Non-TriCollege ILL - BOOKS: For books NOT available in Tripod, try E-Z Borrow and request books directly from nearby Pennsylvania & NJ libraries. Books usually arrive within a few days. If the book is not available via EZ Borrow, try regular InterLibrary Loan. (Use Worldcat to get complete BOOK information).
JOURNAL ARTICLES: For articles in journals not available from the main libraries in TriCo*, use the online ILL form. You must put the COMPLETE JOURNAL TITLE in your request - do not use abbreviations, or your request will most likely be sent back to you. For complete journal titles, check the book behind the Circulation Desk, or go to Journal Abbreviation Sources.
* Journals DO circulate from main libraries, so if you need an article from a non-science library journal, place a hold on the actual journal volume in Tripod and it will be sent via TriCo van!