Computer Science

Ready Reference Searching for Books Bibliographies and Indexes E-Journals Organizations Current Awareness WWW Sites   Ready Reference Sources Dictionary of Computing and Digital Media QA 76.15 H318 1999 Ref. Encyclopedia of Computer Science QA 76.15 E48 2000 Ref. Encyclopedia of Information Systems T 58.5 E52 2003 Ref. Computer User High-Tech Dictionary Free On-line Dictionary of Computing Searching for Books Browse the QA 76 section of the stacks Search the Five College Library Catalog by author, title or subject. Search in our E-Books collections, particularly:  Books 24 x 7: IT professional books Safari Books: O'Reilly technical books ebrary: general collection with some good titles in computing NetLibrary: general collection with some good titles in computing Bibliographies and Indexes ACM Guide to Computing Literature: go to ACM portal Inspec: very large online database (1969- ) including Computer & Control Abstracts, Electrical & Electronics Abstracts, Physics Abstracts, and Information Technology. Indexes scientific and technical journals and conference proceedings, but not ACM conferences. Options for access to Inspec. MathSci: online version of Mathematical Reviews, which covers some computer science conference papers. Searchable via MathSciNet. ResearchIndex (CiteSeer): free, full-text index to freely available research articles on the web. This index is popular with computer scientists because a great deal of CS literature is available this way, and because ResearchIndex also provides citation analysis. Web of Science doesn't index conference papers (a mainstay in computer science), but ResearchIndex does (if the proceedings are on the web for free). It also offers reference linking, extraction of citation context, related document detection and the BibTeX entry for each article. Science Citation Index (ISI's Web of Science): a major web-based service covering 5,700 journals in science and over 2,000 in other disciplines. Special feature: search by cited reference (to find newer papers that refer to an earlier known work). Other options: for information about General Science Index, and other multidisciplinary science tools, consult the general science page.   E-Journals E-journal mega-lists: Electronic Journals Library (Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek EZB). You can search by journal title or browse lists of free fulltext journals by subject area, e.g., Computer Science Yahoo's Science: Computer Science: Journals MHC e-journal subscriptions for access via our campus network: Please search the Online Library Catalog by journal title if you are seeking a specific title. We are now cataloging each e-journal to which we have subscribed or signed a license agreement. You should find records there for both print and online journals. You should also be able to connect directly to the e-journal. Or try Five College E-Journal Locator (SFX): identify e-journals held by MHC and the Five Colleges. Note: This new service does not yet contain all of our e-journal holdings, but it does search collections such as Academic Search Premier, BioOne, JSTOR, etc. The "Citation Linker" will go to the full-text of a specific article if you provide the exact volume and page numbers. Other E-Journals, freely available, useful for MHC: You can get SOME e-journal content free without subscription. We have not cataloged these; we do not know if they will remain free. Selected examples: Byte Online Datamation HighWire Press: Free Online Full-text Articles (Long list of journals, mostly in biological sciences, published online with the assistance of HighWire Press; annotated to indicate which portions of each journal are accessible free.) IBM Journal of Research and Development IBM Systems Journal IEEE Spectrum [some public access; other parts restricted to IEEE members] Organizations AAAI: American Association for Artificial Intelligence ACM: Association for Computing Machinery AWC: Association for Women in Computing CPSR: Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, including link to Women in Computing page IEEE Computer Society NCSA The National Center for Supercomputing Applications Current Awareness Computing Research Repository (CoRR) Ingenta/Uncover: access to tables of contents for over 15,000 periodicals, searchable by title keyword, author, or periodical title. Selected WWW Sites The list below is just a sample. It includes some of the best "metasites", sites that include links to many more sites, organized by subject or theme or format. These are excellent starting places for exploring the Internet. Guide to Computer Science Internet Resources by Michael Knee, Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, Summer 1997. Networked Computer Science Technical Reports Library (NCSTRL) Searchable database of technical reports from various universities and research institutes. Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies Over 1000 bibliographies, with over 700,000 references! Use the Advanced Search for best results. Programming Language Research CMU web page with many links Yahoo's Computer Science Page Yahoo's Robotics pages Google's Robotics resources Page UMass Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics Computer Vision Homepage CMU Computer Vision Handbook (Margaret Fleck) Computing Research Repository (CoRR) Women in Computer Science Association for Women in Computing The Ada Project (TAP) clearinghouse of resources related to women in computing ACM-W the ACM committee on women in computing NCWIT National Center for Women & Information Technology  WebGrrls Unite!