Reinert-Alumni Library: Computer Science Research Guide

Curtis Brundy
Subject Librarian
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Computer Science Research Guide

Library Catalog (CLIC): The "Creighton Libraries Information Catalog" of books and other materials. Includes more than 35,000 e-books from the ebrary Academic Collection.
http://clic.creighton.edu/
WorldCat: Search for books and other materials in thousands of libraries worldwide.

Academic Search Premier: Articles from thousands of magazines and journals in many different subjects, including computer science (1970s-present).
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ACM Digital Library *: Publications of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), including journals, transactions, and proceedings (years vary by source).
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Google Scholar (beta): Articles and other scholarly materials on the open web. From off campus, enter Google Scholar through the library website to see Creighton linkouts.
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IngentaConnect: Articles from thousands of magazines and journals (years vary by source). From off campus, enter IngentaConnect through the library website to see Creighton linkouts.
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Library, Information Science, and Technology Abstracts (LISTA) *: Articles from several hundred journals plus some books and other material (mid-1960s to present).
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ScienceDirect *: Articles from several thousand journals, including many in computer science (years vary by source).
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Web of Science *: Articles from thousands of journals, including computer science. Use Web of Science to find articles that cite a certain author's work (1977-present).
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AccessScience: The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology online, including biographies, definitions, citations, and current news.
Encyclopedia of Computer Science: Reference Collection QA 76.15 E48 2000
Encyclopedia of Computers and Computer History: Reference Collection QA 76.15 E53 2001 (2 vols.)
Encyclopedia of Information Systems: Reference Collection QA 76.15 E516 2003
Free Online Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC): http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html
Gale Virtual Reference Library: Computer Science: Includes: Encyclopedia of Information Ethics and Security; Encyclopedia of Portal Technologies and Applications; Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics; and the Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography.
History of the Internet: "A chronology, 1843 to present."
Reference Collection TK 5105.875 I57H58 1999
Oxford Reference Online: Computing: Dictionaries of computer applications, the Internet, personal computing, computer graphics, networking, artificial intelligence, security, and weights and measures.
Webopedia: "Online dictionary and search engine ... for computer and Internet technology definitions."
http://wwwpcwebopaedia.com/

CiteSeer: Citations to articles, conference papers, and technical reports in computing and allied sciences, with some full text links. From the NEC Research Institute.
http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/Misc/CiteSeer/
Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies: Citations to journal articles, conference papers and technical reports, including some full text links.
http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/
Computing Research Repository (CoRR): Searchable archive of research submitted by computer scientists in partnership with ACM, the Los Alamos e-Print archive, and NCSTRL.
http://xxx.lanl.gov/find/cs

Academic Info: Computer Science: "An annotated Directory of Internet Resources," including programming languages, history of computing, and women in computer science.
http://www.academicinfo.us/compsci.html
History of Computing: Current, clearly organized links to timeline, biographies, companies, hardware, software and reference.
http://www.thocp.net/

American Association for Artificial Intelligence: http://www.aaai.org/
American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST): http://www.asist.org
Association of Computing Machinery (ACM): http://www.acm.org/
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers): http://www.ieee.org/
Scholarly Societies Project: Computer Science: http://www.scholarly-societies.org/compsci_soc.html
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM): http://www.siam.org