Databases (Periodical Indexes and Abstracts) - Use for Finding Articles
Found under the heading of Databases on the College of Charleston Libraries Web page. In order to access most of the databases from off-campus, you need a user name and password, click on off-campus/dorm access to databases on the C of C Libraries Web page to find out how.

Subject Specific/Multidisciplinary

ACM Digital Library
Full text and indexing to 29 ACM journals.
Note: Find full-text journal articles in computer science.

Computer Source
Focusing on information and current trends in high technology, this database offers full text for more than 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1985.
Note: Find full-text journal articles as well as article references in computer science.

MathSciNet
Encompassing both Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications, this index is the most comprehensive in the discipline.
Note: Find journal article references in math.

Web of Science
Access to the Science Citation Index, the Social Sciences Citation Index and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index. (Please log out when you are finished.)
Note: Find journal article references in biology, chemistry, physics, computer science, etc.

Science Direct
Full-text to over 1,200 in the scientific, technical and medical fields. Over 1.5 million articles available. Includes aprx. 100 titles relevant to computer science.
Note: Find full-text journal articles in biology, chemistry, physics, medicine, computer science, etc.

EBSCO EJS
Indexing to thousands of journals and full-text to over 300 journals principally in the sciences.

General

Directory of Open Access Journals
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Includes 30+ computer sceince titles.

Academic Search Premier
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database providing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated daily.
Note: Find journal, as well as magazine, newspaper article references in any academic subjects.

InfoTrac Expanded Academic Index
Provides bibliographic references, abstracts or full text for articles from more than 1,500 scholarly and general-interest publications. Covered subject areas include the humanities, social sciences, non-technical general sciences and current events. The backfile includes citations to articles back to 1980. Updated daily.
Note: Find journal, as well as magazine, newspaper article references in any academic subjects, some available in full-text.

PapersFirst
Provides access to individual papers presented at conferences worldwide covering congresses, symposia, expositions, workshops, and meetings since October 1993.
Note: Find proceedings papers.

Databases - Use for finding e-books

Safari Tech Books Online
A collection of 58 technical books dealing principally with computer science (XML, HTML, Java, Linux, Unix, etc.). To see the titles to which we subcribe, click on the BookShelf option near the top of the page. Only one person at a time may use this database so PLEASE LOG OUT AS SOON AS YOU ARE FINISHED.

Specialized Search Engines - Use for Finding e-prints, technical reports, etc.

CiteSeer: a public digital library and search engine in computer and information science

CoRR: Computing Research Repository
Browse: http://arxiv.org/archive/cs
Search: http://arxiv.org/find/cs

techXtra
cross-search 25 databases in engineering, math, and computing, including CiteSeer, arXiv e-prints, etc.

Created 5/22/06, Dongmei Cao, Science Librarian, Addlestone Library, College of Charleston.
Any comments, please email me.