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Computer Science Subject Guide
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This is a guide to finding selected
Computer Science resources in the Galvin Library. For more in-depth assistance, please contact the subject specialist, or click here to Ask a
Librarian.
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Subject Specialist:
Eben English
email: englishe@iit.edu
phone: 312.567.3373
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Use these resources to find journal articles, e-books, conference proceedings, book reviews, and more.
= highly recommended
ACM Digital Library
The Association for Computing Machinery Digital Library is an online repository of papers from publications that have been published, co-published, or co-marketed by the ACM, including journals, newsletters, and conference proceedings. All computing subject areas are covered. Full-text.
Books 24x7
Books 24x7 is a database of over 4,500 E-books covering computer science and information technology from more than 80 publishers, including MIT Press, Que, Microsoft Press, and many more. This resource is great for finding programming how-to books and technical manuals for network administration, operating systems, database management, and other IT topics. Use the My Bookshelf feature to save a list of books or book chapters you have been using, so you can easily pick up where you left off during your previous sessions. Full-text.
CiteSeer
CiteSeer is a scientific literature digital library focusing on computer and information science. CiteSeer provides citation indexing for each article, which allows you to see (a) all the references cited by the article, and (b) what other articles have cited the article. The Computer Science Directory feature also provides a breakdown of the most-cited articles for various topics within the discipline. Full-text.
Computer and Information Systems Abstracts
Provides comprehensive indexing of academic literature related to computer and information science from 1981-present, including journals, conference proceedings, technical reports, trade journal/newsletter items, patents, and books. Major subject areas covered: artificial intelligence, applications, programming, hardware, information systems, mathematics of computing, and software engineering. Full-text not available – use the GetArticle links to find full-text.
CoRR - Computing Research Repository
An online repository of research papers and reports (mostly e-prints, which
are generally advance copies of papers and articles that have not
yet been published in academic journals) in computer science. Sponsored by the ACM, arXiv.org, and NCSTRL. Papers can be searched or browsed for
based on subject area, title, author, or keywords in the full abstracts. Full-text.
INSPEC
INSPEC is one of the major databases providing abstracts and indexing to scientific and technical papers in computing, control engineering, electrical engineering, and other fields. This database indexes ACM, IEEE, and SIAM publications, so it's a good one-stop search interface. Some full-text available – use the GetArticle links to find full-text.
MathSciNet
A database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for mathematical sciences scholarly literature. Computing-related areas of coverage include discrete mathematics, theory of computing, algorithms, data structures, and artificial intelligence. Full-text not available – use the GetArticle links to find full-text.
SIAM Journals Online
An online digital library of all publications of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, from 1952-present. Journals of interest include SIAM Journal on Computing, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, and SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics. Use the Advanced Search feature to search multiple titles simultaneously. Full-text.
Web of Science
Web of Science provides comprehensive indexing and abstracting of scientific journal literature from 1991-present. A main feature is the citation index, which allows you to see (a) all the references cited by the article, and (b) what other articles have cited the article. Links to related articles are provided. This is a good database to use if you have an article of interest and want to expand your search to related documents. Full-text not available – use the GetArticle links to find full-text.
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