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Computer Science (Legacy)

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Welcome to the Computer Science Subject Guide.

Each of the tabs above is a page of resources, and tips, on finding a particular sort of computer science information. Some resources are broad-based, but others focus on particular types of CS. Once you're in the right tab for the sort of information you're looking for, take a look at the discriptions of the different options so you can find the right resource for your particular topic. If you have any problems drop me a line at billjac@miami.edu and I'll try to help you out.


Bill Jacobs

Science and Engineering Librarian

Subject Specialist

James Sobczak

Catalogs
Collection Description

The Libraries' have an extensive collection of books and journals in the computer science subject area, as well as a growing body of online resources, e-books, e-journals and databases. Most current journals are available online and accessible from the IBISWEB library catalog and the list of e-journals available at University of Miami.

General Resources
  • AccessScience
    Articles and research reviews covering all major scientific disciplines and encompassing the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology and the McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology, plus definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms.
  • Safari Books Online
    Provides electronic access to IT resources published by several leading publishers: O'Reilly & Associate, The Pearson Technology Group, QUE, Microsoft Press, SAMS, Adobe Press, and Addison Wesley. The ebooks are searchable on their own and may also be searched across the board. The ebooks are in complete full text and include all images/graphics, charts, full table of contents, and indexes. Note: The Richter Library has created a custom library consisting of 100 titles. To browse the title selections, click on the Bookshelf option in the toolbar. The Richter Library's custom title list includes subject areas such as: C++, Dynamic HTML, JAVA, Web authoring tools (e.g., Dreamweaver), XML, PERL, SQL, Visual Basic, Web Servers, Linux, Web Administration.
  • Knovel.com
    This multi-publisher electronic reference collection covers all of engineering including some computer and electrical engineering materials computer scientists may find useful.
  • Synthesis
    Synthesis is an information service for the research, development and educational communities in engineering and computer science. The basic component of the library is a 50 to 100 page electronic book that synthesizes a research or development topic, authored by a contributor to the field. Synthesis is organized by series, each managed by a consulting editor. The series editor oversees lecture topic and author selection as well as peer review to assure quality.
Computer science databases
  • ACM Digital Library
    Full-text access to a variety of journals and conference proceedings published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Note: The Richter Library subscription does not include full text access to the ACM Proceeding and SIG newsletter articles.
  • IEEE Xplore
    A full text collection of IEEE and IEEE-associated journals and conference proceedings.
  • SCOPUS
    Covering the life, physical, health, and social sciences, Scopus is a large abstract and citation database of research literature and web sources. Scopus covers:  Over 15,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 international publishers, including coverage of:  500 Open Access journals, 700 Conference Proceedings, 600 Trade Publications, 125 Book Series. More than 60% of titles are from countries other than the US Abstracts go back to 1966. References go back to 1996. 80% of content is indexed with controlled vocabularies. 100% coverage of Medline, including unique Medline journals. 28 million abstract records. 245 million references added to all abstracts. Scopus also covers 250 million quality web sources, including 13 million patents. Web sources are searched via Scirus, and include author homepages, university sites and resources such as the preprint servers CogPrints and ArXiv.org, and OAI compliant resources.
  • Web of Science Citation Indexes
    Web of Science, published by Thomson Reuters, is a multi-disciplinary database that provides integrated access to over 8,000 key research journals indexed in: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. There are two main ways to search the database: --- select General Search to search for articles by subject term, author name, journal title, or author affiliation --- select Cited Reference Search to search for articles that cite an author or article that you specify. Web of Knowledge features citation searching, email alerts, links to the full text of many items.
  • Science Conference Proceedings
    This portal from the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information lets you search databases of proceedings and papers from a host of authoritative sites--professional societies and national labs in the physical sciences and technology, largely.

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