Contains citations, abstracts and selected full-text for articles from the foremost U.S. and international computing journals, computer science books and monographs, papers from U.S. and international conference proceedings, doctoral theses, and reports. 1981-. This is a resource from the Association of Computing Machinery.
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ACM Portal
Scitopia.org
This is the search interface which allows you to locate articles/citations from these scholarly societies Acoustical Society of America, American Geophysical Union, American Institute of Physics, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Association for Facilities Engineering, Audio Engineering Society, AVS, ECS, IEEE, Institute of Physics, IUCR Crystallography Journals Online, Optical Society of America, Professional Engineering Publishing, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics, SPIE, The Society for Information Display and these Government information sources: DTIC Technical Reports Collection, European Patents, Information Bridge, Japanese Patents, NSF Publications Database, US Patent & Trademark Office Database. To locate material, use the sfx system via the CSUEB Library.
Safari Books Online
A very useful resource for books by major publishers in the field of computer science and information technology.
Articles (Research Databases)
ACM Portal
Contains citations, abstracts and selected full-text for articles from the foremost U.S. and international computing journals, computer science books and monographs, papers from U.S. and international conference proceedings, doctoral theses, and reports. 1981-. This is a resource from the Association of Computing Machinery.
Google Scholar Advanced Scholar Search
This specialized Google resource supplements the proprietary databases such as ACM, ScienceDirect, etc. Google describes this as:
“What is Google Scholar?
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.”
Please note: On campus users can use the “Find Text @ CSUEB” link to access or request articles. You can use the “Scholar Preferences” to use the Find Text link. To do so, click on “Scholar Preferences” in the upper right of the scholar.google.com screen, then enter Cal State University, East Bay in the Library Links box. Click on Save Preferences.
Academic Search Premier
Contains indexing for 8,175 publications, with full text for more than 4,700 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
arXiv
from the arXiv primer: “arXiv is an openly accessible, moderated repository for scholarly articles in specific scientific disciplines. Material submitted to arXiv is expected to be of interest, relevance, and value to those disciplines. arXiv reserves the right to reject or reclassify any submission. Submissions are reviewed by expert moderators to verify that they are topical and refereeable scientific contributions that follow accepted standards of scholarly communication (as exemplified by conventional journal articles).” Please note: the papers available via arXiv are essentially in pre-publication and therefore not fully peer-reviewed. See also http://arxiv.org/corr/home for a different interface for the same database. The subject classification follows the ACM taxonomy (http://arxiv.org/corr/subjectclasses).
ScienceDirect
Indexing and full text to over 1,100 journals in 16 fields of science including chemistry, materials science, economics, business & management science, physics, social and behavioural sciences, clinical medicine and more.
Web of Science
Journal literature of the sciences. Provides citations, 70% of which include abstracts; also includes the articles’ cited reference list.
Wiley Interscience
Full text, online access to journals published by Wiley. Content also includes the following reference books Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Ullman’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry. Backfiles for individual journals vary from 2 to 4 years.
Reference Books
Dictionary of Computer Terms (REF QA 76.15 W36)
Free Online Dictionary of Computing (FODOC)
Historical Dictionary of Data Processing (REF QA 76.15 C67 1987)
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms (REF Q 123 M15)
Microcomputer Applications Handbook (REF QA 76.5 M521674)
O’Reilly Dictionary of PC Hardware & Data Communications Terms
Wikipedia’s List of important publications in computer science
Caveat lector! This is Wikipedia, but this list can be a helpful resource for the user who critically evaluates resources.
Websites
Citeseer
from the site: “CiteSeerxis a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science. CiteSeerx aims to improve the dissemination of scientific literature and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness in the access of scientific and scholarly knowledge.”
Scitopia.org
This is the search interface which allows you to locate articles/citations from these scholarly societies Acoustical Society of America, American Geophysical Union, American Institute of Physics, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Association for Facilities Engineering, Audio Engineering Society, AVS, ECS, IEEE, Institute of Physics, IUCR Crystallography Journals Online, Optical Society of America, Professional Engineering Publishing, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics, SPIE, The Society for Information Display and these Government information sources: DTIC Technical Reports Collection, European Patents, Information Bridge, Japanese Patents, NSF Publications Database, US Patent & Trademark Office Database. To locate material, use the sfx system via the CSUEB Library.
Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
from the site: “This is a collection of bibliographies of scientific literature in computer science from various sources, covering most aspects of computer science. The bibliographies are updated weekly from their original locations such that you’ll always find the most recent versions here.”
Digital Bibliography & Library Project
from the site: “This server provides bibliographic information on major computer science journals and proceedings. DBLP indexes more than one million articles and contains more than 10000 links to home pages of computer scientists.” Please see http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/about/faqdblp.html for guidance on searching, etc.
Google Scholar Advanced Scholar Search
This specialized Google resource supplements the proprietary databases such as ACM, ScienceDirect, etc. Google describes this as:
“What is Google Scholar?
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.”
Please note: On campus users can use the “Find Text @ CSUEB” link to access or request articles. You can use the “Scholar Preferences” to use the Find Text link. To do so, click on “Scholar Preferences” in the upper right of the scholar.google.com screen, then enter Cal State University, East Bay in the Library Links box. Click on Save Preferences.
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
from the IEEE site: “IEEE is the world’s largest professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. IEEE and its members inspire a global community through IEEE’s highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities.”
Association for Computing Machinery
from the ACM site: “ACM, the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, delivers resources that advance computing as a science and a profession. ACM provides the computing field’s premier Digital Library and serves its members and the computing profession with leading-edge publications, conferences, and career resources.”
arXiv
from the arXiv primer: “arXiv is an openly accessible, moderated repository for scholarly articles in specific scientific disciplines. Material submitted to arXiv is expected to be of interest, relevance, and value to those disciplines. arXiv reserves the right to reject or reclassify any submission. Submissions are reviewed by expert moderators to verify that they are topical and refereeable scientific contributions that follow accepted standards of scholarly communication (as exemplified by conventional journal articles).” Please note: the papers available via arXiv are essentially in pre-publication and therefore not fully peer-reviewed. See also http://arxiv.org/corr/home for a different interface for the same database. The subject classification follows the ACM taxonomy (http://arxiv.org/corr/subjectclasses).
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