Databases for Computer Science
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Key Databases
- ACM Digital Library

- Bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews and full-text for articles published in Association for Computing Machinery periodicals and proceedings since its founding in 1947, plus selected works published by affiliated organizations
- ITPro

- Provides full-text access to over 5,000 e-books on over 100 different technology topics
- Safari Tech Books Online

- Provides full-text access to more than 1,400 e-books on information technology and software programming published by O'Reilly, Sams, Que, and others; "rolling wall" of the last 3 years
- Science Citation Index (Web of Science)
- Indexes over 5,000 scholarly journals across the sciences. Unique feature allows access to the indexed articles' cited references (i.e. the bibliographies or reference list). Enables the researcher to see the relationships between the older cited references and the current work, 1945 to present
Additional Databases
- CogNet

- Provides an electronic community for the cognitive and brain sciences developed by MIT, including a searchable full-text library, a calendar of events, job listings, discussion groups, and more
- MathSciNet
- Indexes Mathematical Reviews (full-text) and Current Mathematical Publications from the American Mathematical Society, 1940 to present
- PapersFirst
- Indexes papers received at The British Library presented at conferences, congresses, expositions, workshops, symposia and meetings, 1993 to present
- ProceedingsFirst
- Indexes publications from every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library, 1993 to present
Multidisciplinary Databases
- Web of Science (multidisciplinary)
- Indexes over 11,000 scholarly journals in the sciences (1945 to present) and the social sciences (1956 to present) and the arts and humanities (1975 to present). Unique feature allows access to the indexed articles' cited references (i.e. the bibliographies or reference list). Enables the researcher to see the relationships between the older cited references and the current work
- WorldCat
- Books and other materials held in most academic, research and large public libraries worldwide