Information Resources for Computer Science

Best Resources for Finding Articles

• ACM Digital Library
  • Abstracts, reviews, and full-text for articles published in ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) journals and magazines. Full-text for SIG Proceedings and Newsletters. Part of the ACM Portal to Computing Literature. 1985- present.
• ACM Online Guide to Computing Literature
  • Search or browse books, journals, proceedings, theses, and reports in computer science. Over 750,000 citations. Part of the ACM Portal to Computing Literature.
• Computing Reviews
  • Critical peer reviews for literature in computer science and the mathematics of computing. Links to full text articles from the reviews are available for resources to which we subscribe. 1985- present.
• INSPEC (EBSCOHost)
  • Online equivalent of Computer and Control Abstracts, Electrical and Electronics Abstracts, and Physics Abstracts from 1969, with linked full-text access to many journals. (To search multiple EBSCOhost databases, click the "Select Databases" tab.)
• MathSciNet
  • Access to Mathematical Reviews from 1940 to the present; also includes Current Mathematical Publications featuring recent and forthcoming works.
• Engineering Village 2 (Compendex Web)
  • Online equivalent of Engineering Index, within an organized space for engineering Web resources. 1970 - present.
• NTIS
  • Index to U.S. government-sponsored research and worldwide scientific, engineering, and business-related information from 1960.
• Science Citation Index
  • Part of Web of Science. Search by subject, author, or cited reference. On the search screen, clear the checkboxes for Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index if you do not want to search all 3 databases simultaneously (the default). An excellent current awareness and bibliography-building tool. 5,700 journals, from 1965- present
    Save citations to EndNote Web — recorded training sessions are available.
• CiteSeer
  • Largest free full-text index of scientific research papers; 730,000+ titles. Search by keyword or citation. More information.
• IEEE Xplore
  • Full-text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 and all current IEEE Standards.

Additional Resources for Finding Articles & Other Information

• Preprint Servers for Computer and Information Science
• ECO - Electronic Collections Online (Electronic Journals)
  • Indexes 5,400+ scholarly journals in a wide range of subjects. Abstracts and full-text are available for approximately 400 journals to which UNR subscribes. To limit results to these journals, check the "full-text" box. 1995- present.
• Elsevier ScienceDirect (Electronic Journals)
  • Full text of articles from 1800 electronic journals, primarily in the Sciences with some titles in the Social Sciences. 1995 - present for most journals. More information
• Ingenta
  • Indexes more than 20,000 journals covering all subject areas, with tables of contents for the journals included.
• PapersFirst
  • Index to conference papers contained in the British Library's collection of proceedings of symposia, conferences, and workshops. 1993 to present.
• ProceedingsFirst
  • Index to the proceedings of conferences from the collection held at the British Library. Contains tables of contents for most proceedings. 1993 - present.
• Dissertations & Theses: Full Text (formerly Dissertation Abstracts)
  • ProQuest Dissertations and Theses — Full text is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. It includes 2.4 million dissertation and theses citations from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1 million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works.
• WorldCat
  • A catalog of library materials in all formats from libraries all over the United States and the world. Contains more than 61 million items.

Electronic Books

• books24x7
  • Thousands of full-text eBooks from APress, Wrox, Microsoft, Sams, Que, and other publishers on information technology, web development, business, e-commerce, design, and graphics. New users are required to register, using a valid e-mail address. After you register, you will immediately receive an e-mail from books24x7 with login instructions.
• MATHNetBase
  • Search or browse the latest editions of online reference books in pure and applied mathematics from CRC Press.
• Computer Dictionary
  • Definitions for thousands of the most current IT-related words.
• FreeTechBooks.com
  • Free online computer science books and lecture notes on C and C++, Java, programming, algorithms, and other topics of interest to computer science students.
• PLT Online
  • Programming Language Theory Texts Online. Selected out-of-print reference works and lecture notes.