Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and Information Technology Center
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Subject
Guide: Computer Science
| The subject guide to computer science provides information on resources available from the Alvin Sherman Library, both in the library and online, related to computer and information sciences. The subject guide covers subject headings, reference sources, books, periodicals, databases, Web sites, and style guides. |
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Periodicals |
Web Sites |
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Reference Sources |
Databases |
Style Guides |
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Books |
Subject Headings
You can find books and other materials in the library by searching NovaCat, the NSU Libraries online catalog. How to search NovaCat. To locate books and materials at other libraries, see Catalogs.
Suggested Library of Congress (LC) subject headings include:
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Reference Sources
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Title
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Location & Call Number
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| Computer sciences | Main Reference QA76 .C572 2002 v.1-4 |
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Encyclopedia of computer science
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Main Reference
QA76.15 .E48 2000 |
| Encyclopedia of computer science and technology | Main Reference QA76.15 .E5 v.1-45 |
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Encyclopedia of software engineering
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Main Reference
QA76.758 .E53 2002 v.1-2. |
| World of computer science | Main Reference QA76.15 .W67 2002 v.1-2 |
Books
E-books
E-books or electronic books may be accessed via NovaCat
or from the netLibrary database.
Entries for electronic books in NovaCat will
have the eBook icon 
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| Title | Author |
| Complete idiot's guide to Java 2 | Morrison, Michael. |
| Elements of artificial neural networks | Mehrotra, Kishan, Mohan, Chilukuri K., Ranka, Sanjay. |
| Enterprise JavaBeans | Monson-Haefel, Richard. |
| Foundations of neural networks, fuzzy systems, and knowledge engineering | Kasabov, Nikola K. |
| Human factors in information systems. Relationship between user interface design & human performance | Carey, Jane, M. (ed.) |
| Java network programming | Harold, Elliotte Rusty. |
| Oracle database administration | Kreines, David C. |
| SQL Server 2000 administration | Linsenbardt, Mark A., Stigler, Shane. |
Circulating Books
Circulating books may be checked out by visiting the library. Distance students may also request books via Document Delivery.
| Title | Author | Location |
| Algorithms and theory of computation handbook | Atallah, Mikhail J., ed. | Main QA76.9.A43 A43 1999 |
| Blondie24 : playing at the edge of AI | Fogel, David B. | Main Q335 .F595 2002 |
| Computationalism : new directions | Scheutz, Matthias. | Main QA76 .C54747 2002 |
| Data management handbook | Purba, Sanjiv, ed. | Main QA76.9.D3 D35855 1999 3rd ed. |
| Geometric data analysis : an empirical approach to dimensionality reduction and the study of patterns | Kirby, Michael. | Main Q327 .K57 2001 |
| Handbook of logic in artificial intelligence and logic programming | Gabbay, Dov M., Hogger, C.J., Robinson, J.A., eds. | Main QA76.63 .H36 1993 v. 1-5 |
| Intelligent support systems: knowledge management | Sugumaran, Vijay. | Main QA76.9.D3 I5495 2002 |
Periodicals
Periodicals include journals, magazines, newspapers and other serial publications. Search NovaCat for individual titles and holdings information. Periodicals do not circulate, but may be viewed at the library location listed. NSU distance students may request copies of specific articles via Document Delivery.
Many periodicals are available with full-text (or full image) online in the databases. Search the Journal Finder for specific titles.
| Title | Location |
| ACM transactions on internet technology | Main Periodicals |
| Computer communication review | Main Periodicals |
| Computer networks | Main Periodicals |
| IEEE/ACM transactions on networking | Main Periodicals |
| IEEE multimedia | Main Periodicals |
| IEEE Network | Main Periodicals |
| Network computing | Online |
| Network world | Online |
Databases
The online and CD-ROM databases serve as indexes to the literature, primarily
periodicals. They include citations, abstracts and, sometimes, full-text depending
on the type of database. See Database
Searching for additional information. Click on 
More Info icon for a complete description of the database. To access the databases,
go to the Electronic Resources.
| Title of Database | Type |
| ACM Digital Libary |
Full text. |
| Applied Science & Technology Full Text |
Selected full text. |
| Computer Abstracts (CSA) |
Selected full text. |
| Computer & Information Systems Abstracts (CSA) |
Selected full text. |
| Digital Dissertations |
Selected full text. |
| Digital Dissertations - Current Research@NSU (ProQuest)
How to get dissertations. |
Selected full text. |
| Emerald Library |
Selected full text. |
| ERIC (FirstSearch) |
Selected full text. |
| IEEE Computer Society Digital Library |
Full text. |
| INFORMS PubsOnLine |
Selected full text and on-campus access only. |
| INFORMS PubsOnLine - Public version |
Citations & abstracts only - no full text. |
| NetLibrary |
Full text. |
| PapersFirst (FirstSearch) |
No full text. |
| ScienceDirect |
Selected full text. |
| Wiley InterScience |
Selected full text. |
| Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega (WilsonWeb) |
Selected full text. |
Web Sites
Many useful information resources are available on the Internet. But, remember to evaluate any Web site before using it for research.
Associations
| Association for Computing Machinery http://www.acm.org/ Founded in 1947, ACM has played a major force in advancing the skills of information technology professionals and students worldwide. Their website has information on membership, scholarships, ordering publications, etc. |
| Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams http://www.first.org/ The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST), brings together a variety of computer security incident response teams from government, commercial, and academic organizations. |
| IEEE Computer Society http://www.computer.org The IEEE Computer Society is one of the world's leading organizations of computer professionals. Their website has information on membership, scholarships, ordering publications, etc. |
| National Science Foundation's Directorate for Computer
and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) http://www.cise.nsf.gov CISE promotes research and education in the fields of computer and information science and engineering, and strives to maintain U.S. preeminence in these fields. |
| Scholarly Societies Project - Computer Science http://www.scholarly-societies.org/compsci_soc.html Provides access to websites of international scholarly societies. Website is maintained by the University of Waterloo Library. |
| World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org World Wide Web Consortium is an industry consortium for the purpose of developing common protocols and standards for the World Wide Web. |
Directories & Databases
| Center for Research on Parallel Computation http://www.crpc.rice.edu/ The Center for Research on Parallel Computation (CRPC) is one of the National Science Foundation's 25 Science and Technology Centers. The CRPC was created in 1989 and is a nation-wide consortium of more than 400 researchers, support staff, and graduate students at seven core university and laboratories in the U.S. |
| InfoMineScholarly Internet Resource Collections http://infomine.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/search?category=physci A cooperative effort created by librarians from several universities such as University of California, Wake Forest University and California State University. INFOMINE contains hundreds of journal articles (selected full-text), electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, etc. |
| CiteSeer Scientific Literature Digital Library http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/ CiteSeer is a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science. |
| EEVL http://www.eevl.ac.uk/ Searchable database of web resources in engineering, mathematics and computing. Part of the U.K. Resource Discovery Network. |
| Science.gov: FirstGov for Science http://www.science.gov Science.gov was developed by an interagency working group of 16 scientific and technical information organizations from 11 major science agencies. Two major types of information are included: selected authoritative science Web sites and databases of technical reports, journal articles, conference proceedings, etc. |
| Scirus http://www.scirus.com/ Scirus is one of the most comprehensive science-specific free online search engines. It contains over 17 million records from sources, some are free and full-text, from sources such as ScienceDirect, NASA, The Computer Science Preprint Server, CogPrints, E-Print ArXiv, etc. |
| WWW Computer Architecture Home Page http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~arch/www Website is a portal to links for conferences, on-line publications, books, awards, etc. in the computer science industry. Created by the Computer Architecture Group Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
| WWW Virtual Library - Computing http://www.vlib.org/Computinghtml The Virtual Library (VL) is the oldest catalog on the World Wide Web. The VL was created by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of html and the web. The VL is not the biggest directory on the web but its pages are recognized as being amongst the highest-quality guides to particular subject areas. |
Programming Languages
| The Source for Java(TM) Technology http://java.sun.com Sun's Java Programming Language is an object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems to solve a number of problems in modern programming practice and to provide a programming language for the Internet. |
Reports & Bibliographies
| Bibliographies of Technical Reports of Computer Science
Departments http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/mirrors/bibliography/Techreports/ This website is located at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) in Germany. It contains abstracts and URLs to over 1 million journal articles, conference papers, and technical reports. |
| Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies http://liinwwwira.uka.de/bibliography/index.html This website is located at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) in Germany. It contains abstracts and URLs to over 1 million journal articles, conference papers, and technical reports. |
| CogPrints: Cognitive Sciences E-print Archive http://cogprints.org/ A browsable archive that allows individuals to freely post research citations. It was developed at the Department of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, England. |
| Computer Science Reading Room http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,4-164-0-0-0,00.html Free access to all Springer Computer Science Journals. Includes the entire contents of more than 70 computer science journals and 35 volumes in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Registration required. |
Periodicals, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, etc.
| Computer Dictionary http://hyperdictionary.com/computer Based upon the FOLDOC (Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing) Dictionary compiled by Dennis Howe. Contains approximately 14,000 entries. |
| Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures http://www.nist.gov/dads/ Over two dozen contributors have provided over 1300 computer science terms and definitions. NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) is an agency of the U.S. Commerce Department's Technology Administration. |
| Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) http://www.doaj.org The DOAJ contains links to over 500 free, full text, scientific and scholarly journals. The DOAJ supports the open access initative that permits all users to freely read, download, copy, print, or link to online full text articles. Directory is maintained by Lund University Libraries in Sweden. |
| Help-Site: Computer Manuals http://help-site.com/ Website is maintained by one individual who has provided seventeen categories, almost 18,000 terms and links to nearly 200 websites. |
| Webopedia: Online Dictionary for Computer and Online Terms http://www.pcwebopaedia.com/ Webopedia is part of the internet.com network of Web sites owned and managed by Jupitermedia Corporation. Full-time editors collect information from computer science professionals and agencies in the field. |
Style Guides
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APA style is generally the standard for papers and publications in Computer Science. See Style Guides. Additionally the APA style manual is available at several NSU Libraries.
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