Starting Points: Computer Science

Research Guide: Computer Science
Finding Background Info [help]
Tip: use these sources for quick overviews, to develop vocabulary for searching and/or for more sources
	Oxford Reference Online Database - access to over 140 online reference books
	West's Encyclopedia of American Law Ref KF 154 .W47 2004 v.1 - 13
	Black's Law Dictionary -- Ref KF 156 .B53 2009
Finding Articles [help]
	ACM Digital Library (note: 3 users per download more info) -- Full text access to articles from the ACM
	Engineering Village 2 -- Access to Compendex, ENGnetBASE and US Patent Office
	FAITS (Faulkner Advisory for Information Technology Studies) -- Online technology reports
	Science Citation Index -- Researchers can search citation data (from the footnotes of each article), taking a known, relevant paper or work and finding other, more recent papers that cite it.
	... more databases ...
Finding Books [help]
	Library Catalog -- search by subject, keyword, author or title!
Web Resources -- Portals
	ACM Digital Library --access to reference and citation links including current research and archived research
	Scitopia.org -- "Search over 3.5 million documents, plus patents and government data. Twenty One societies spanning 350 years of sci-tech scholarship help you with your queries."
	IEEE Computer Society Digital Library -- online access to 18 IEEE journals and the proceedings of 150 conferences in computer science. FREE access to abstracts and bibliographies.
	...more web resources here -- including ethics, associations and legal links ...

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How Do I ...?

Tell if it is a Scholarly Journal

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