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Computer Science

Ready Reference Searching for Books Bibliographies and Indexes E-Journals
Organizations Current Awareness WWW Sites  

Ready Reference Sources

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 BooksO'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

MathSci: online version of Mathematical Reviews, which covers some computer science conference papers. Searchable via MathSciNet.

ResearchIndex (CiteSeerx): 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).

  E-Journals
E-journal mega-lists: 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 service may not 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:

Organizations
  • AAAI: Association for the Advancement of 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 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.

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