Computer Science

Databases
Web resources
Dictionaries
Encyclopedias
Professional organizations
Finding books

what are these?
These are social bookmarking services that allow internet users to store, search, and share bookmarks of webpages.

Databases

Compendex (aka Engineering Village or EI)
The most comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database in the world. Compendex indexes all fields of engineering.

Academic Search Premier
An interdisciplinary database that provides full text articles. Indexes many IEEE publications.

ScienceDirect College Edition
Full-text access to most Elsevier journals in the physical sciences and life sciences.  The collection contains four million articles prior to 1995, and 2.75 million articles from after 1994. To see only full-text content, click on their green search button and then change the "source" to "Subscribed Journals."

Wiley Interscience Journals
Indexes all Wiley-Blackwell content including books but only has full text access for most of Wiley's several hundred journals. Use the Browse by Product Type (Journals), then choose Computer Science.

SpringerLink Journals
Access to 232 journals covering engineering, physics, chemistry and computer science.

Referex Engineering
A searchable, full-text collection of electronics and electrical engineering reference books online.

Web resources

O’Reilly

AI Topics

Science.gov

Science Daily
Current research news in AI and other sciences.

Dictionaries

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Handbook of Programming Languages

V. 1  Object Oriented Programming Languages

  Imperative Programming Languages

V. 3  Little Languages and Tools

V. 4  Functional and Logic Programming Languages

Handbook of Object Technology

Handbook of Applied Cryptography

Finding books

By subject search

Below are some links to various subject searches in the catalog. The subject search is a specific and helpful way to find materials about your area of interest. Explore these or try some of your own subject searches using the "Subject" tab in Foxtrax. For more information on "power searching" by subject, ask your reference librarian.

Artificial Intelligence

Programming Languages (Electronic Computers)

Electronic Digital Computers--Programming 

By call number

If you want to browse for books in the library, use the call numbers below to find the subject areas that are of interest to you. You can use them to browse the reference section or the main stacks. The Library of Congress website may have a more detailed outline of call numbers for your subject area.

Subclass Q  
Q300-390 Cybernetics
Q350-390 Information theory
Subclass QA  
QA75.5-76.95 Electronic computers. Computer science
QA76.75-76.765 Computer software