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Use this guide to locate a wide variety of resources for in-depth literature research in Computer Science. If you are just getting started with library research, see the Computer Science Research Guide.
ACM Pressroom
CNN Sci-Tech
Eurekalert (AAAS)
Lexis Nexis Universe (Online Newspapers)
Meerkat (O'Reilly Open Wire Service)
Nature Magazine
Science in the Headlines (NAS)
Science Magazine
Security in the News (produced by Darmouth's Institute for Security Technology Studies)
Security News Portal
SIAM News
US-CERT
Washington Post Newsbytes (login required)
Wired News (Wired Magazine's news service)
Computer Science | Engineering and Technology | Mathematics
Usenix (1993- , except current year): See http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/index.htmlThe Dana Biomedical Library has a list of biomedical e-journals, please see: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~biomed/resources.htmld/ejournals.htmld/
Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment (JAKE) (Yale University)
Provides a variety of information about electronic journals. Jake is searchable by abbreviation.INSPEC prints a source book which includes abbreviations see ISSN "0264-7508"
Web of Science has several lists of abbreviations :addresses: http://wos6.isiknowledge.com/help/adabrv.html
cited works: http://wos6.isiknowledge.com/help/cittitle.html
corporations: http://wos6.isiknowledge.com/help/acrnabrv.html
countries: http://wos6.isiknowledge.com/help/adabrv.html#Country_names
institutions: http://wos6.isiknowledge.com/help/acrnabrv.html
states: http://wos6.isiknowledge.com/help/adabrv.html#US_states
Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols, and Abbreviations published by Wiley.
DOI Resolver: Paste in a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) and it will take you to the correct page for that article.
Dartmouth new book acquisitions: http://library.dartmouth.edu/newbooks/qa.shtml
Lecture Notes in CS
Netlibrary: see http://www.netlibrary.com/
On-Line Books Page - QA:
A directory of mathematics and computer science books that can be freely read on the Internet. It includes an index of thousands of on-line books, pointers to significant directories and archives of on-line texts, and special exhibits.
see http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/subjectstart?QA
The following indexes and abstracts will help to identify literature in Computer Science. For journal articles, proceeding papers, and book chapters, the Dartmouth Library Catalog should be searched to determine if Dartmouth owns the journal, proceeding, or book. To search the catalog see: http://libcat.dartmouth.edu.
Consists of a searchable, browsable, bibliographic database from the key publishers in computing, including books, journals, proceedings and theses. See: http://www.acm.org/dl/
Provides full-text access to publications from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) (1988- ): can be accessed through IEEE Xplore: see http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/
A collection of bibliographies of scientific literature in computer science from various sources, covering most aspects of computer science. The about 1200 bibliographies are updated monthly from their original locations.
The collection currently contains about one million references (mostly to journal articles, conference papers and technical reports). More than 16000 references contain crossreferences to citing or cited publications. More than 100,000 references contain URLs to an online version of the paper. There are more than 2000 links to other sites carrying bibliographic information.
For access to this collection see: http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/index.html
Provides worldwide coverage of approximately 4,500 journals and selected government reports and books. Subjects covered include: civil, energy, environmental, geological, and biological engineering; electrical, electronics, and control engineering; chemical, mining, metals, and fuel engineering; mechanical, automotive, nuclear, and aerospace engineering; and computers, robotics, and industrial robots. In addition to journal literature, over 480,000 records of significant published proceedings of engineering and technical conferences are included.
COMPENDEX covers 1970 to the present and indexes book reviews, books and monographs, conferences, symposia, meetings, journal articles, technical reports.
For access to COMPENDEX see: http://www.engineeringvillage2.org/
A partnership of ACM, the Los Alamos e-Print archive, and NCSTRL (Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library).
The Computing Research Repository (CoRR) is a collection of computer science research reports and other material available through NCSTRL (http://www.ncstrl.org/) and is linked with the ACM Digital Library (http://www.acm.org/dl/).
To search CoRR see: http://xxx.lanl.gov/archive/cs/intro.html
For a list of subjects see: http://xxx.lanl.gov/archive/cs
and http://www.acm.org/class/1998/ccs98.html
Subject areas covered are physics, electrical engineering, electronics, computing and computer theory, artificial intelligence, hardware and software, control technology, and information technology. Approximately 4,000 journals and 2,000 conference proceedings are indexed. Years covered are 1898-present.
Access to INSPEC is through ISI's Web of Knowledge platform.
Therefore, you can cross search INSPEC, Web of Science and some key free resources like the arXiv.org. To use that feature, select Cross Search from the drop-down menu, then select Change Products to Search, and select or deselect what you want to include in a search.
Computing Reviews is the new Web version of this resource for critical reviews of journal articles, conference papers, books and other materials in all areas of computer science research. Many of the references contain links to full-text from ACM and other major publishers. See: http://www.reviews.com/home.cfm
Covers 5,300 journals in the basic and applied sciences, including medicine, engineering, mathematics and computer science. Years covered are 1900-present. Updated weekly.
Search features include: cited reference searching, current awareness searching, keyword searching across all files, related records linking, interdisciplinary searching, and number of times a paper was cited. Searching "This week's update" or "Latest 2 weeks" or "Latest 4 weeks" or "All years" or "Year selected" are possible date limits.
To search Web of Science see: http://isiknowledge.com/wos
For journals indexed by Web of Science see: http://www.isinet.com/isi/journals
A bibliographic database that cites every article of at least one column in length in more than 473 periodicals. ASTI indexes English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. Non-English-language articles are indexed if English abstracts are provided. Periodical coverage includes trade and industrial publications, journals issued by professional and technical societies, and specialized subject periodicals. ASTI covers 1984-present and is updated monthly. Abstracts are provided for citations added to the database since 3/93.
To search ASTI see: http://hwwilsonweb.com/
For journals indexed by ASTI click here.
A subject, title, and author guide to virtually every American dissertation accepted at an accredited institution since 1861. Selected Masters theses have been included since 1962. In addition, since 1988, the database includes citations for dissertations from 50 British universities that have been collected by and filmed at The British Document Supply Centre. Beginning with DAIC Volume 49, Number 2 (Spring 1988), citations and abstracts from Section C, Worldwide Dissertations (formerly European Dissertations), have been included.
Produced by the British Library Document Supply Centre (BLDSC). The database contains details of all papers given at every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop, and meeting received at the British Library Document Supply Centre since October 1993. Each year over 15,000 proceedings are indexed, covering a wide range of subjects published as serials, monographs, or microform. Over 500,000 bibliographic citations for individual conference papers will be added annually. Most records are in English, with many languages represented in the source documents.
Access to INSIDE CONFERENCES is through an online service called Dialog. Contact a Kresge Librarian for details on searching INSIDE CONFERENCES.
Good for searching, viewing, and analyzing United States patents (full-text since 1976, full-page images since 1790) and patent applications (published since 15 March 2001).
To search USPTO see: http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html
A web based index containing bibliographic citations and evaluative reviews and abstracts of the research literature in mathematics. It is the electronic equivalent to Mathematical Reviews covering the years 1940 to the present. Review texts and abstracts are available from 1940-present.
To search MATHSCINET see: http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/search
The NTIS: National Technical Information Service database consists of summaries of U.S. government-sponsored research, development, and engineering, plus analyses prepared by federal agencies, their contractors, or grantees. NTIS also provides access to the results of government-sponsored research and development from countries outside the U.S. Organizations that currently contribute to the NTIS database include: laboratories administered by the United Kingdom Department of Industry; the German Federal Ministry of Research and Technology (BMFT); the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS).
NTIS covers 1964 to the present and indexes bibliographies, conferences, symposia, meetings, government documents, journal articles, microforms, patents, reports, standards, theses and dissertations, translations.
The Cyberspace Lexicon: an illustrated dictionary of terms from multimedia to virtual reality. Bob Cotton and Richard Oliver. London: Phaidon Press, 1994.
Dictionary of PC Hardware and Data Communications Terms. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
Dictionary of Computer Science, Engineering, and Technology. Phillip A. Laplante. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, c2001.
Dictionary of computing. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
The Dictionary of Multimedia; Terms and Acronyms. 2002 Edition. Brad Hansen. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2002.
Microsoft Press Computer Dictionary: the comprehensive standard for business, school, library, and home. 2nd Ed. Redmond, Wash.: Microsoft Press, c1994.
Webster's New World Computer Dictionary. Bryan Pfaffenberger. New York, NY: Hungry Minds, c2001.
The Computer Science and Engineering Handbook. Edited by Allen B. Tucker, Jr. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1996.
Handbook of Mathematics and Computational Science. John W. Harris, Horst Stocker. New York: Springer, 1998.
Access Science: The Online Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. McGraw-Hill.
Computing Information Directory. 13th Edition. Darlene Myers Hilderbrandt. Colville, WA: Pedaro, c1985-1996.
Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence. Stuart C. Shapiro and David Eckroth. New York : Wiley, c1987.
Encyclopedia of Computer Science. 4th ed. Editors, Anthony Ralston, Edwin D. Reilly, David Hemmendinger. London: Nature Pub. Group, 2000.
Encyclopedia of Computers and Computer History. Raúl Rojas. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, c2001.
World of Computer Science. Brigham Narins, editor. Detroit: Gale Group, c2002.
Kresge Library offers a Current Awareness Service to Faculty and Graduate Students.
An automated alerting service that delivers the table of contents of periodicals directly to an e-mail box. Ingenta derives its contents from UnCover Web, a database of current article information taken from over 17,000 multidisciplinary journals starting from the Fall of 1988.
Directly request books from the combined library catalogs (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale) using Borrow Direct.
Please fill out the DartDoc Form for documents that are in Storage or not in the Dartmouth Library or use Borrow Direct for books. See the Document Delivery webpage for more details on these services.
CogNet (MIT) (http://cognet.mit.edu/library/)
growing collection of searchable electronic texts for cognitive and brain sciences. The Library contains works from the MIT Press, as well as content and links to resources from other publishers, professional associations, institutions, and individuals who are willing to share public access to online work.
Goto Computer Science Beyond Dartmouth for a list of interesting websites: see http://www.dartmouth.edu/~krescook/qnetlinks/cslinks.shtml
RefWorks (http://www.refworks.com/Refworks)
RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic management program that allows users to create their own personal database of bibliographic references by importing references from online databases. RefWorks makes it easy to search, sort, and use these references in writing papers and then to automatically format the paper and the bibliography. Refworks provides import formats for many science databases, including SciFinder Scholar, MEDLINE or PubMed, ISI's Web of Science, Proquest, and the CSA collection of databases.
EndNote
EndNote is a bibliographic management database that can be used in several ways to help you organize and track citations to the literature. You can download search results from databases such as the online catalog, SciFinder Scholar, MEDLINE or PubMed, General Science Index and Web of Science directly into EndNote. EndNote provides a searchable index to the articles by author, keyword, date, etc., and can be used to produce a bibliography, formatted according to preselected styles, when combined with a word processing program like Microsoft Word. EndNote is a keyserved program that is available to the Dartmouth Community (http://www.dartmouth.edu/comp/resources/downloads/win/publish/endnote.html). For more information, see the Biomedical Libraries FAQ on EndNote.
Sources: Their Use and Acknowledgement. Dartmouth College general resource to citing sources in all subject areas. (http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sources/)
APA (American Psychological Association) Electronic Reference Style Guide examples (http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html)
Columbia Guide to Online Style (MLA, Chicago, APA and CBE Style Citations of Electronic Sources). For printed copy, see: Baker/Berry Reference PN171.F56 W35 1998
Online updates are posted at: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html
For assistance, please see the Staff Directory.
The Computer Science Bibliographer is Ann Perbohner (6-3845)
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