Computer Science

Please contact Tom Bickley if you need further research assistance with this subject.

New Computer Science Books available in the CSUEB Library
New Science Books available in the CSUEB Library
CSUEB Computer Science Journals
CSUEB Computer Science Serials

Overview Sources

Internet Public Library (http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/com00.00.00)
Science and Engineering Literature (REF Q 120 M28)
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology (REF Q 121 M3 1997)
McGraw-Hill Personal Computer Programming Encyclopedia (REF QA 76.6 M414)
Encyclopedia of Computer Science & Engineering (REF QA 76.15 E48)
Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence (REF Q 335 E53 1987)

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Sources That Help Define the Topic

Online:
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_important_publications_in_computer_science)
O'Reilly Dictionary of PC Hardware & Data Communications Terms (http://www.ora.com/reference/dictionary)
Free Online Dictionary of Computing (FODOC) (http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html)

Printed:
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms (REF Q 123 M15)
Dictionary of Computer Terms (REF QA 76.15 W36)
Microcomputer Applications Handbook (REF QA 76.5 M521674)
Historical Dictionary of Data Processing (REF QA 76.15 C67 1987)

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Finding Books

HAYSTAC: http://libcat.csueastbay.edu/

Safari Tech Books Online: http://safari.oreilly.com/

Conference Proceedings

The ACM Portal and IEEE Digital Library index conference proceedings in addition to journal articles. If the proceedings you need is not available online, check in:

HAYSTAC - Books and other materials owned by CSUEB. Available at http://134.154.30.10/

Link+ - Obtain books in 2-3 days from other campuses. Connect through HAYSTAC. Available at http://csul.iii.com/

To find conference proceedings on HAYSTAC or Link+, search for the sponsoring association as an Author; or do a Word search for your subject and add the word proceedings (ex., type in: software and engineering and proceedings).

Samples of proceedings:

Society for Computer Simulation. Summer Computer Simulation Conference. (f QA 76 S863a, 1972-)
Computer Society of the IEEE.CompCon. (f QA 75.5 C58, various conferences from 1986 on).
ACM (Association for Computing Machinery). Proceedings of the ACM Annual Conference. (f QA 76 A8, 1966-68, 1979, 1981, 1984-97, latest in the Math/CS department).

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Biographical Sources

Biography and Genealogy Master Index (Library Database Center)
American Men and Women of Science (REF Q 141 .A47)
Historical Dictionary of Data Processing: Biographies (REF QA 76.15 .C66 1987)

Citing Your Sources

Chicago Manual of Style (REF Z253 .U69 2003) (Some instructions are online, too: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/cmosfaq/)

IEEE Submission guidelines: http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/authors/index.html

Also, check the Duke University library web page on citing for examples.

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Databases for Finding Articles in Journals, Magazines, and other Periodicals

ACM Portal - Contains citations, abstracts and selected full-text for articles from the foremost U.S. and international computing journals, computer science books and monographs, papers from U.S. and international conference proceedings, doctoral theses, and reports. 1981- .

IEEE Digital Library - Provides full-text Internet access to 20 IEEE Computer Society periodicals from 1988 to present plus more than 875 conference proceedings backfile to 1995.

Web of Science - Journal literature of the sciences.  Provides citations, 70% of which include abstracts; also includes the articles' cited reference list. 

ScienceDirect - Indexing and full text to over 1,100 journals in 16 fields of science including chemistry, materials science, economics, business & management science, physics, social and behavioural sciences, clinical medicine and more.

Wiley Interscience  -  Full text, online access to journals published by Wiley.  Content also includes the following reference books Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Ullman's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry. Backfiles for individual journals vary from 2 to 4 years.

Applied Science & Technology Abstracts -  Abstracts for 350+ key, international English-language periodicals in chemistry, computer technology, data processing, energy, engineering, mathematics, and physics. Includes abstracts for interviews, meetings, conferencesand citations for book reviews.

Academic Search Premier - Contains indexing for 8,175 publications, with full text for more than 4,700 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

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Does the Library have the magazine, journal, or newspaper you need? Look in:

HAYSTAC online catalog for call number and dates - NOTE: The journals and newspapers themselves are shelved upstairs in the Periodicals section.

Periodical Locator  is a comprehensive list of periodicals, journals, magazines, and newspapers accessible via the Internet and/or available in the CSU Hayward Library.

If we don't own the journal, and there is time (allow 1-2 weeks for delivery), use the Interlibrary Loan service (see the information on the ILLiad service).

If we don't own any form of the journal, check:

MELVYL database (http://melvyl.cdlib.org/)- this is the UC- system catalog. If the Berkeley campus has what you need, you may want to go there.

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E-Journals

There are many out there in cyberspace, but here are a few which are refereed as well as being free:

Cybermetrics  -  http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics/cybermetrics.html
IBM Systems Journal  and  IBM Journal of Research & Development  -  http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research  -  http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/jair/home.html
Journal of Memetics  -  http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit/
Neural Computing Surveys  -  http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~jagota/NCS/

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Web Sites of Interest

Bibliographies on the Web
BibFinder: http://kilimanjaro.eas.asu.edu/
Citeseer: http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/
Digital Bibliography & Library Project: http://dblp.uni-trier.de/
Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies: http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/index.html#search

Collected Computer Science WWW Sites
GEAR Site (CSUEB): http://gear.csuhayward.edu/wiki/lit-search/
Computer Science links from the Univ. at Albany: http://library.albany.edu/subject/csci.htm
Google Computers Directory: http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/
Yahoo Computer Science Directory: http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Computer_Science/
IBM Almaden Research Center: http://www.almaden.ibm.com/

Specialized Resources
Catalog of Free Compilers and Interpreters: http://www.idiom.com/free-compilers/
PERL Directory: http://www.perl.org/
Open Archives Initiative: http://www.openarchives.org/
Coalition for Networked Information: http://www.cni.org/

Evaluating Internet Resources
If you are unsure of the information you have found on the WWW, remember to ask/critique the page by using the handout from class, or by going to either of the pages below.

UC Berkeley tutorial on WWW pages:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html

More Academic-type Subject Searching the WWW
Infomine - http://infomine.ucr.edu
Librarian's Index to the Internet - http://www.lii.org

Metasearch Engines: Ixquick.com, Profusion.com, etc.

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