Resources for Computer & Information Science

Journal Articles
Books, Reports & Theses
Reference Sources
Gateways & Guides

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The following links are provided for research and information purposes only to be used by students, faculty and staff.

Journal Articles

ACM Digital Library

ACM
Bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and the full-text for articles published in ACM periodicals and proceedings since its founding in 1947 are available in the library together with selected works published by affiliated organizations.

Aerospace & High Technology Database

CSA
The Aerospace Database provides bibliographic coverage of basic and applied research in aeronautics, astronautics, and space sciences. The database also covers technology development and applications in complementary and supporting fields such as chemistry, geosciences, physics, communications, and electronics. In addition to periodic literature, the database also includes coverage of reports issued by NASA, other U.S. government agencies, international institutions, universities, and private firms.

Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals
This provides indexing to significant articles, news items, editorials and books reviews appearing in military and aeronautical periodicals, many of which are not indexed elsewhere.

CiteSeer Scientific Literature Digital Library
CiteSeer is a scientific literature digital library that provides algorithms, techniques, and software that can be used in other digital libraries. CiteSeer indexes Postscript and PDF research articles on the Web.

Compendex

Engineering Village
Compendex contains over seven million references and abstracts taken from over 5,000 engineering journals, conferences and technical reports. Online coverage is from 1969 to the present and includes nuclear technology, bioengineering, transportation, chemical and process engineering, light and optical technology, agricultural engineering and food technology, computers and data processing, applied physics, electronics and communications, control, civil, mechanical, materials, petroleum, aerospace and automotive engineering as well as narrower subtopics within all these and other major engineering fields.

Computer and Information Systems Abstracts

CSA
There are thousands of sources in this growing field - and only Computer and Information Systems Abstracts provides fast, organized access to all of them, including hard-to-find conference literature. Jointly published with Engineering Information, this database provides a comprehensive monthly update on the latest theoretical research and practical applications around the world. From its inception as one of the earliest databases in the field, Computer and Information Systems Abstracts has proven itself an essential resource.

Computing Reviews

Computing Reviews
Computing Reviews is an online database of reviews in computing literature from Reviews.com and the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery). Drawn from the top ranks of their professional and scientific fields, the reviewers will recommend and review the best articles and books in their areas, providing a resource for technical professionals, experienced users, and lay people looking for high-level information. In addition to a ten year-plus archive of reviews and articles, Computing Reviews allows personalized alerts, customized searching and browsing.

Emerald Fulltext

Emerald
Contains 35,000 articles from over 100 management journals, complete with full text archives back to 1994. Covers the major management disciplines including strategy, leadership, information management, marketing and human resource management.

IEEE/IEE Electronic Library Online

IEE Explore
This database provides full-text access to over 12,000 publications produced by in conjunction with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers [IEEE] and the Institution of Electrical Engineers [IEE]. Included in this database are journal articles, conference papers and technical standards. Coverage is from 1988 to present.

Ingenta

The Ingenta Library Gateway is a searchable database of more than 11 million citations from over 20,000 journals.

INSPEC

Contains citations and abstracts to the literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, telecommunications, computers, control technology, and information technology. Covers journal articles, conference papers, significant books, technical reports, dissertations, and patents. INSPEC is the premier database for physics & related disciplines but also covers areas like systems management and operations research. Coverage begins in 1969.

Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts

EBSCO
Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts (formerly Microcomputer Abstracts) provides abstracts and indexing for literature related to personal computing products and developments in business, the Internet, the home, and all other applied areas. Over 400 of the most important trade publications, mainstream computer magazines, and professional journals are covered, including those that focus on specific topics such as Macintosh and Windows platforms, programming, web development and more.

Jane's Online

Provides access to full-text reports, articles and image files relating to the world's armed forces and defense industry, geopolitical arena and various transportation systems.

ProQuest Computing

ProQuest
Top computing journals in full-text for research on subjects such as database design, software development, web commerce, LANs, WANs, Intranets, the Internet.

ProQuest Military

ProQuest
Search all military titles for information on defense and military issues.

ProQuest Science Journals

ProQuest
Search full text and images for the leading periodicals in science and technology. Subject coverage includes computers, engineering, physics, telecommunications, and transportation.

ProQuest Telecommunications

ProQuest
Full-text for top telecommunications industry publications. Includes magazines, journals and newsletters for the latest in this fast changing industry.

Science Citation Index

Click on Web of Science The Science Citation Index® provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 5,900 of the world's leading scholarly science journals covering more than 150 disciplines. Dudley Knox Library's subscription covers articles and papers published from 1980-present.

Staff College Automated Military Periodicals Index (SCAMPI)
Provides citations to articles on military and naval art and science, operational warfare, joint planning, national and international politics, and other areas researched by Joint Forces Staff College faculty, staff, and students.

TORPEDO Ultra

Access to the full text of selected journals published by Academic Press, Elsevier Science, Institute of Physics and Naval Research Laboratory Formal and Memorandum Reports, NRL authored journal articles and conference papers, and NRL Press Releases.

Web of Knowledge

The website includes Science Citation Index 1980- , Social Sciences Citation Index 1991- , Current Contents Connect. This database provides citation and tracking information on current and retrospective research and a current awareness tool. Cited references [footnotes and bibliographies] for all articles are captured and indexed, allowing tracing of the references and citation analysis. Includes access to some full-text articles.

Wiley Interscience : Computer Science

Full text of Wiley computer science journals

Books, Reports & Theses

NPS Theses
View theses and dissertations for M.S. and Ph.D. degrees awarded at NPS. The links below will produce search results in BOSUN, our online catalog for degrees awarded in the designated area.
   Computer Science
   Information Technology Management
   Information Systems
   Modeling, Virtual Environments, and Simulation (MOVES)
   Software Engineering

BOSUN
Dudley Knox Library
BOSUN, the Library's online catalog, lists the publications (books, theses, journal titles, etc.) and multimedia materials available in the Dudley Knox collections. It also provides links to some of the Library's electronic resources (electronic journals, databases indexing journal literature, etc.).

Computing Reviews

Citations to reports from DTIC, a clearinghouse for a variety of defense-related scientific and technical publications. Through the STINET database, DTIC indexes and abstracts these reports, providing full-text to some reports. The STINET database has coverage from 1975. The library owns the print version of some of the DTIC reports, and has nearly complete coverage in microfiche.

ENGnetBASE : Engineering Handbooks Online

EngnetBase
ENGnetBASE provides online access to the full text of the CRC Press Engineering Handbook series. Subject areas include civil engineering, telecommunications, electronic engineering, materials science, chemical technology, computer science, avionics, manufacturing, signal processing, and mechanical engineering.

Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library (NCSTRL)
An international collection of computer science technical reports from CS departments and industrial and government research laboratories, made available for non-commercial and educational use.

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations

Digital Library of ETDs (Electronic Theses and Dissertations)

Safari Tech Books Online

Only Two users at a time. If the database is busy please try again later. You do Not need to login. Select "My Books" to search full-text books only. Click on Logout when finished. Safari is an "electronic reference library for programmers, IT professionals and knowledge workers." It allows you to search across the full text of hundreds of computer and technical books from O'Reilly, Que, New Riders, Addison-Wesley, and more.

Springer eBook Collection in Computer Science

Covers areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Computer Communication Networks and Telecommunications, Image Processing, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Graphics, Information Systems and Applications, Internet/Web, and HCI, Programming and Software Engineering, Security and Cryptology, Theoretical Computer Science. It includes the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science

The basic component of the library is a 50- to 100-page "Lecture"; a self-contained electronic book that synthesizes an important research or development topic, authored by an expert contributor to the field. They provide more synthesis, analysis, and depth than typical research journal articles. New lectures will be added continuously and existing lectures will be revised as needed.

WorldCat

With WorldCat (the OCLC Online Union Catalog) you can simultaneously search the catalogs of over 9000 libraries worldwide. WorldCat contains more than 50 million records in over 400 languages.

Reference Sources

AccessScience

McGraw-Hill
AccessScience is the online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. Includes full search capabilities, news updates, graphics, bibliographies, biographies, and links to related web sites, as well as survey articles on aeronautical engineering, space technology, jet propulsion and more.

Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
This is a collection of about 1400 bibliographies of scientific literature in computer science from various sources, covering most aspects of computer science. The bibliographies are updated monthly from their original locations

Compinfo : The Computer Information Center
The top one-stop reference resource for corporate IT, computer software, computers and communications Millions of IT users world-wide rely on our Web-based support resources.

FOLDOC (Free Online Dictionary of Computing)
Searchable dictionary of more than 13,000 acronyms, jargon, programming languages, tools, architecture, operating systems, networking, theory, conventions, standards, mathematics, telecoms, electronics, institutions, companies, projects, products, history, in fact anything to do with computing

Tech Encyclopedia
More than 20,000 entries for information technology terms

Webopedia
A great online dictionary and search engine for computer and Internet technology definitions and sites

Gateways & Guides

Computer Science Degrees & Resources Online
AcademicInfo

Guide to Selected Computer Science Resources on the Internet
From the Association of College and Research Libraries News, this site provides links to a wealth of computer science web resources, including gateways, universities, associations, bibliographies, sources for pre-prints and technical reports, freely available electronic journals, online tutorials, and more. Dated, but still useful

Getting Started With Your NPS Thesis
A page of information and resources on the NPS thesis process and academic research and writing.

Human Interface Technology Lab : HIT Lab
Policies, Guidance, Standards, and Other References and Resources related to building affordable, maintainable, interoperable, standards-based training programs using advanced training technologies.

Human Interface Technology Lab : HIT Lab Publications

Internet Resources in Computer Science
University at Albany
Links to hundreds of computer science resources on the internet including: organizations, bibliographies, electronic books & conference proceedings, electronic journals, meetings, tutorials, and more

Navy Modeling and Simulation Office (NMSO)
The Navy Modeling & Simulation Office (NSMO) web site serves as the web-enabled single point of public access to the Navy's Modeling & Simulation Information Service (NMSIS). The NMSIS collects, maintains, and distributes information about Navy Modeling and Simulation (M&S) for the use of Program Managers, engineers, M&S builders, and others throughout the M&S community.

Navy Modeling and Simulation Office (NMSO) Modeling and Simulation Resources
Navy Modeling & Simulation (M&S) registered resources are categorized here. The level of detail available is substantial. In some cases, the resource will be available for immediate download. In other cases, you will need to follow the instructions provided.

Scholarly Societies in Computer Science
University of Waterloo
This is one of a set of subject pages in the Scholarly Societies Project, which facilitates access to websites of scholarly societies across the world

Revised: Wednesday, June 10, 2009